Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

More than a year after bank transfer day, customer frustration with big banks and their fees seems to be fading, according to one new study.

An improbable bipartisan push to rein in megabanks is gathering steam on Capitol Hill.

Banks are looking to attract your business with cash bonus offers. Are they worth it?

Heard enough about ‘too big to fail’? Congress hasn’t. Lawmakers will begin considering a new bill designed to eliminate the potential for taxpayer bailouts.

Is the government continuing to fuel a too-big-to-fail attitude in the banking industry?

A group of senators is asking regulators to investigate high-interest payday loans being made at major banks.

Many politicians, especially on the Democratic side, were less willing to be associated with and more likely to criticize the banks.

Criminals use checking accounts and a weakness in Citibank’s computer systems to steal $1 million from the megabank in 60 seconds.

Anyone who still thinks big U.S. banks are hurting financially might want to take a look at the latest earnings reports from the biggest of the super bigs. Although the income wasn’t all that equal, even the smallest pie was more than $1 billion. Here, with numbers and comments, from the banks’ press statements is

Will big banks’ losses be community banks’ and credit unions’ gains? That’s the presumptive winners’ hoped-for outcome as consumers supposedly take up in arms over new bank fees for debit card use. The Credit Union National Association, or CUNA, a trade group that represents credit unions, said in an Oct. 7 statement that consumers who