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Seven Arkansas lenders remain under the umbrella of the U.S. Treasury's TARP program in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown. The group collectively received more than $126 million through [...]

Since serious and systemic problems in the credit markets first began to unfold during the summer of 2007, the Treasury and the IRS have published more than 20 items of [...]

In explaining his three-year old short dollar position, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told shareholders earlier this year, 'There are deep-rooted structural problems that will cause America to continue to run [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho 'Tear that (expletive) down. Tear all these (expletives) down.' When I pulled up to the blighted house at 70 Thorpe St. in southwest Pontiac last week, that's [...]

Byline: Chris Cumming Community banks have been the major drivers of a Treasury Department program that lets states design public-private programs to spur small-business lending. Community banks originated about 60% [...]

Byline: Sarah Todd First Citizens Banc Corp (FCZA) in Sandusky, Ohio, is planning to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The $1.1 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing that [...]

Byline: Thinnes, Billy The US Treasury Department, acting in concert with the US Department of State, recently took action to target Iran's petrochemical industry (Fig. 2). As Iran's oil revenues [...]

Byline: Chris Cumming FNB Bancorp (FNBG) in South San Francisco, Calif., has partially repaid the funds it received under the Treasury Department's Small Business Lending Fund. The $872 million-asset company [...]

Byline: Andy Peters A pass-the-buck mentality by the Treasury Department and federal regulators allowed a number of banks to use proceeds from the Small Business Lending Fund to exit the [...]

Byline: Brian Browdie The Treasury Department continues to sell bank stakes that it obtained during the financial crisis. The agency said Wednesday that it recouped roughly $149 million from selling [...]

Byline: Jackie Stewart QCR Holdings (QCRH) in Moline, Ill., has repaid about a fourth of its money it received from the Treasury Department's Small Business Lending Fund Program as part [...]

Byline: Kate Davidson WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department and state regulators have insisted the enactment of Dodd-Frank effectively forces national banks to comply with more state consumer protection laws. So [...]

Byline: Alan Kline Centrix Bank in Bedford, N.H., intends to tap the government's billion Small Business Lending Fund to increase its commercial lending and repay what it borrowed from the [...]

Byline: Robert Barba Broadway Federal Bank in Los Angeles is set to receive a $750,000 award from the Treasury Department for its work in low- to moderate-income communities. The $530 [...]

The Treasury Department is kicking off an initiative to move recipients of federal benefits away from paper payments to direct deposit by March 2013, the Obama administration announced Monday. New [...]

The Treasury Department has begun to better inform Congress and the public about the results of the government's financial bailout program, a past failure that had threatened to undermine the [...]

www.financialstability.gov The Treasury Department has opened its site that will allow ordinary citizens to keep an eye on efforts to stabilize the financial system. It joins another recent site, Recovery.gov, [...]

Iberiabank Corp. in Lafayette, La., is believed to be the first banking company in the country to announce it will give back the money it received from the Treasury Department's [...]

After months of waiting for their turn, Subchapter S corporations will get their chance to apply for capital infusions from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program. A term sheet [...]

WASHINGTON - With the Treasury Department's announcement late Monday that it will provide $6 billion in support to GMAC LLC, the agency has officially allocated more money than it actually [...]

After a succession of federal courts ruled that the 3% federal telephone tax does not apply to flat-rate long-distance services, the Treasury Dept. announced on May 25 that it would [...]

WASHINGTON -- While nearly all Americans are familiar with the risk from identity theft, few have made the move to direct deposit over paper checks, according to a new survey. [...]

The Treasury Department has extended the application deadline for its Community Development Financial Institutions grants so applicants can become better acquainted with a new online process. Applications for the CDFI [...]

KATRINA VICTIMS CAN TAKE LOANS FROM RETIREMENT PLANS: Employer-sponsored retirement plans, including 401(k) programs, will be allowed to make loans and hardship distributions to victims of Hurricane Katrina and members [...]

GOING DIRECT. The Treasury Department wants more of the 13 million people who get federal benefit payments each month to accept them electronically, saying direct deposit could save up to [...]

Lawmakers urged a top Treasury Department official to give banks better guidance on working with check cashers and other money services businesses. Several told Juan Zarate, Treasury assistant secretary for [...]

Picture Book President Bush's proposed federal budget for fiscal 2006 is more than 2,400 pages, but the White House feels your pain. It has boiled every agency's expenses into a [...]

The Treasury Department announced last week that it is now accepting applications for technical assistance grants through its Community Development Financial Institutions Program. More than two-dozen credit unions received technical [...]

Six credit unions and four credit union-backed organizations will receive almost $7-million in federal funding under the Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions program, most of it to help them [...]

Since Congress enacted the Health Savings Account (HSA) legislation in 2003, employers and health plan providers have struggled with a host of implementation issues, such as whether an employee assistance [...]

About a decade after the introduction of credit default swaps, the U.S. Treasury Department now wants to decide whether cross-border payments to a foreign entity in over-the-counter transactions should be [...]

The Treasury Department issued a ruling Tuesday clarifying how customers can use its new health savings account program while retaining certain flexible spending arrangements they might already have with their [...]

Guidelines released Tuesday by the Treasury Department are expected to encourage banks' interest in offering the health savings accounts created by last year's Medicare reform law. Meanwhile, two community banks, [...]