Citigroup has agreed to pay $158.3 million to settle civil fraud charges that its CitiMortgage unit falsely endorsed nearly 30,000 mortgages for Federal Housing Administration insurance. These mortgages contained ...

This coming week may finally see a settlement – as high as $25 billion – between states and the nation’s top lenders over improperly processed foreclosures by hired “robo-signers.” In the final stretch, ...

The foreclosure crisis is very much a tale of two states – judicial versus non-judicial. In the 23 states were a judge has the final say, the foreclosure pipeline has stalled, compared to the 27 states with a ...

A long-anticipated settlement between major banks and the federal government over “robo-signing” – or fraudulent foreclosure documentation – is very close, according to Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan. In ...

Citigroup’s loan business improved in the fourth quarter as consumers did a better job of paying down their credit card balances, but the nation’s third largest bank by assets was hurt by investments and missed ...

You’ve probably already seen the promotion in your e-mail inbox, your actual mailbox or on countless website ads: A $100 “cash back bonus” if you sign up for a credit card. Three of the biggest card issuers ...

The latest anti-big bank crusade is called Balance Transfer Day and urges consumers to ditch high-interest credit cards and move into promotional zero-percent cards from smaller institutions. The Facebook page for ...

It is as though a fed-up federal judge took the Securities Exchange Commission to the woodshed, with Citigroup in tow, and unleashed some punishment in the form of impassioned language. In a sharply worded order ...

The formerly bailed-out big banks already had an image problem, along with the ire of the Occupy Wall Street movement, before October came along and the wrath of consumers escalated further. In rapid succession ...

Shaun Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is taking center stage in the Obama Administration’s case against a nationwide foreclosure moratorium in the wake of the multiple investigations ...