Bitcoin futures soar amid frenzy over virtual currency
Wall Street got its first taste of bitcoin on Monday, with the price of the first-ever futures contract for the digital currency jumping 20 percent.
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Bitcoin soars then falls back; banks raise risk concerns
Even by bitcoin standards, Thursday was a wild ride.
Judge sides with Trump’s pick to take over consumer agency
President Donald Trump scored a victory Tuesday when a federal judge refused to block the president's choice to temporarily run the nation's top consumer financial watchdog and, for the moment,...
Consumer watchdog head names a successor, and Trump does too
The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resigned Friday and named his own successor, leading to an open conflict with President Donald Trump — who announced a different person...
Trump likely to change watchdog agency as Cordray leaves
Richard Cordray, the aggressive first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, plans to leave the agency by the end of the month, giving President Donald Trump a chance to...
Consumers lose chance to sue banks in win for Wall Street
President Trump and Republicans in Congress handed Wall Street banks a big victory by effectively killing off a politically popular rule that would have allowed consumers to band together to...
Applying for a credit card? Please take a selfie
The selfie is everywhere — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter — and soon your bank could be asking for one in order to approve your purchase or credit card application.
Equifax says website wasn’t hacked, cites vendor’s software code for causing customer service page problems
Equifax said Thursday that problems with an online customer help page were caused by a vendor's software code and not by a cyberattack on its systems.
Another Wells Fargo CEO faces an angry Congress
A different Wells Fargo chief executive met a similar kind of anger from Congress on Tuesday, with politicians from both major parties saying they feel the bank has done little...
The ATM at 50: How it’s changed consumer behavior
An automated teller machine. The cash machine. In Britain, a cashpoint. ATMs, known for spitting out $20 bills (and imposing fees if you pick the wrong one), turn 50 years...