citibank

    By Martha C. White

    | 8:00AM 1/24/2011
    You're not imagining it: Banks, especially big ones, have been overhauling their offerings and piling on the fees lately. And while some banks have started dishing out goodies like coffee and danish, don't be distracted by the tasty treats -- they're just there so you won't notice just how crazy...

    By Abigail Field

    | 1:45PM 1/12/2011
    On Oct. 20, New York courts ordered attorneys for foreclosing banks to swear they'd personally confirmed that their documents are true and accurate. But a Brooklyn judge has taken things a step further. Since the banks aren't complying, he has started throwing out foreclosure cases.

    By The Associated Press

    | 2:15AM 12/07/2010
    The Citigroup bailout is officially over: The U.S. Treasury has sold the last of its shares of the bank. Overall, the U.S. government netted $12 billion in profit from the $45 billion bailout.

    By Peter Cohan

    | 12:16PM 12/03/2010
    On Thursday night, venture capitalist and DailyFinance columnist Peter Cohan went on CNBC's The Kudlow Report to debate whether the banking industry is at the start of a period of recovery, as Goldman Sachs claimed this week. Here's why he argued that Goldman was dead wrong.

    By Danny King

    | 5:18PM 11/05/2010
    Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo are among U.S. banks that said in Friday regulatory filings they may incur costs defending lawsuits from investors in their mortgage-backed securities.

    By Abigail Field

    | 1:20PM 10/06/2010
    The state's House Democratic delegation has asked the Justice Department, the Fed and Controller of the Currency to investigate the widespread -- and growing -- problem of faulty bank documents in foreclosure cases. One agency is taking action.

    By Martha C. White

    | 2:30PM 10/01/2010
    When the government gave $700 billion to banks to keep them from collapsing when the economy teetered on the brink in 2008, the decision was controversial. Many decried the use of taxpayer money being used to bail out banks due to their own bad bets, and more than a few economists and pundits...

    By The Associated Press

    | 2:45AM 9/16/2010
    Four of the top six credit card issuers reported an increase in the number of debts they they wrote off as uncollectable in August. But there were a few positive signs as well.

    By Martha C. White

    | 12:08PM 9/15/2010
    We've written recently about some tricky things credit card companies do that can whittle away at the value of your hard-earned rewards, and recent news reported in the Consumer Reports blog illustrates that banks are still trying -- and trying very hard, in some cases -- to keep you from getting...

    By Martha C. White

    | 4:00PM 9/13/2010
    When the blog Easily Amused posted the following link, we figured it had to be a joke. It's not. The blog says the document was pilfered from a Citibank office during a job interview. If you don't care to click the link, the title of the document, "What NOT to do: What women do to sabotage their...