BANKING LAW

Bruce Van Saun, head of Citizens Financial Group, provides expert analysis on New York Community Bank's challenges in an in-depth interview.

Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who is running in Wisconsin to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Herb Kohl, addressed the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night.

When Benjamin Lawsky formally accused U.K.'s Standard Chartered bank of money laundering and a cover-up linked to Iranian financial institutions, the head of New York's newly formed Department of Financial Services was hardly described in glowing terms in the press. He was termed a rogue, an egomaniac and worse by unnamed scorned colleagues in New York and Washington. But in describing his ambitions, what these reports failed to take into account was the depth of his and Governor Andrew C...

An uncanny legal document that accused British bank Standard Chartered of penal law violations raises the question: If the bank were a person, what kind of hard time would it be facing?