Business Institutions

Clark County officials joined those from 13 other counties earlier this month in a federal lawsuit charging a mortgage-recording service and financial institutions of scheming to avoid paying millions of dollars in fees. The counties are suing Mortgage...

Officials at United Bank and Trust Company are urging their customers, and non-customers alike, to exercise caution after the bank received reports of a phone scam, according to a press release sent Thursday. The “Voice Phishing,” or “...

More people live in poverty in Baltimore's suburbs than in the city itself, part of a nationwide shift that is challenging the largely urban assistance network built up over decades. Suburban poverty in the Baltimore area grew 58 percent between 2000 and...

Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation's suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in...

Maryland for years benefited from its close proximity to the nation's capital, but the mandatory federal spending cuts called sequestration will be a drag on the state's economy for the next couple of years, said the president of the Federal Reserve...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, having chastised bank regulators for failing to put Wall Street giants on trial, is demanding to see any analyses that the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission have conducted...

Florida officials are cracking down on those who rip off taxpayers by defrauding public-assistance programs — a crime estimated to cost the state as much as $1.35 billion last year. On Tuesday, leaders from the Department of Children and Families...

WASHINGTON -- It's been five years since the onset of the financial crisis -- the rescue of Bear Stearns in March 2008 -- and we still don't know whether the financial system is safe. In a recent speech, Daniel Tarullo, the Federal Reserve's point man...

Most Longwood banks are implementing a new policy banning customers from wearing hats, sunglasses and hoods as part of a new public safety program, police said in a statement. The new policy is in response to "the rising number of bank robberies...

Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...

Tax lien auctions are a little-known but juicy Florida financial market worth up to $1 billion a year. And, the Sun Sentinel has found, banks, hedge funds and other financial powerhouses have hit upon a way to game the system, squeeze out the little guy...

Along with Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other banking giants, a new name has landed on the latest roster of financial institutions with the most customer complaints in Florida: Fairwinds Credit Union. The Orlando-based credit union was ranked in a...