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Byline: Steve Mister All industries rely on the trust of their customers, and ours is no exception. We are appalled to read about criminals who market illegal drugs and pass [...]

Byline: JANET McFARLAND and TARA PERKINS SECURITIES TRADING British Columbia is interested in participating in a revived effort to create a national securities regulator, but is telling federal officials a [...]

Byline: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY President Obama's effort to roll back costly regulations that are not needed could save more than $10 billion over five years, but critics say that's [...]

New York lawmakers have concerns about proposed rules on financial derivatives that they fear may hinder American companies abroad. In a letter sent to financial regulators Tuesday, New York's bloc [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Timothy F. Geithner can't put his money where his mouth is. The Treasury secretary, who is to join G-20 finance ministers Friday and Saturday in Busan, South Korea, [...]

The White House and Democratic leaders in Congress won't have much time to savor their victory on health care reform if they hope to achieve the next big goal: enacting [...]

President Obama on Thursday will publicly propose giving bank regulators the power to limit the size of the nation's largest banks and the scope of their risk-taking activities, an administration [...]

Byline: David R. Francis Staff Writer If a financial company is deemed "too big to fail," the remedy seems simple: Break it up. Make the bank small enough that even […]

Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer A year after the Wall Street crisis that erased trillions in savings, House Democrats passed a sweeping overhaul of the US financial system. The [...]

Byline: DAMIAN PALETTA FINANCIAL CRISIS WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's proposal to revamp financial-sector regulation is a high-risk strategy that pins much of the plan's success or failure on the [...]

As the deadline for enrollment neared on Wednesday, four of the nation's best-known mutual fund companies said they had joined the new federal program aimed at restoring confidence in the […]

The European Union's telecommunications minister will propose price controls that would substantially reduce the roaming fees that individuals are charged to send text messages and limits that could reduce the […]

Decades after the surgeon general first warned that cigarettes were a health hazard, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Wednesday that would for the first time give the […]

Investors who think they have been wronged by their stockbrokers will soon be able to have their cases heard by panels consisting only of their peers and with no industry […]

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission urged Congress on Thursday to give his agency authority to oversee investment banks, even as a top Federal Reserve official said the […]

Byline: NORVAL SCOTT AND MATTHEW TREVISAN CALGARY and TORONTO -- With natural gas production booming in B.C., TransCanada Corp. has asked federal regulators to take on the oversight of its [...]

For years, neither regulators nor lawmakers have taken much notice as consumers cried for help against unfair credit practices. Card issuers were left free to jack up rates and already [...]

Robert K. Steel leans forward, speaking in a rapid, excitable burst about the powers that a superregulator might wield over Wall Street one day. 'It will have the license to […]

Europe's finance ministers are expected to agree on Friday to guidelines for handling cross-border banking failures, their first steps to address potential threats brought on by the tight credit markets. […]

A Chinese factory that supplies much of the active ingredient for a brand of a blood thinner that has been linked to four deaths in the United States is not […]

The two electric power companies here have agreed to a new regulatory system that sets their annual rate of return, based in part on how much pollution they emit, a […]

The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced the details of his plan to relax the longstanding rule that had prevented a company from owning both a newspaper […]

With Trade Promotion Authority set to expire on June 30, the National Association of Manufacturers on Friday called on Congress to outline a new authority that keeps the Doha Round [...]

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINE A while ago, this column covered the revision process of the International Chamber of Commerce's 'Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits' (UCP), the rules [...]

To the Editor: Regarding the legislation that Senator Lindsey Graham and I have introduced and our attempts to urge China to play fair in the global marketplace (editorial, March 27), […]