European Banks had a check-up recently, and they did fairly well. Only 13 out of the Euro-zone's largest 130 banks failed the European Central Bank's stress tests . Wharton professor of international banking and finance Richard Herring knows a...

The boys (and girls) of Wall Street got a lecture yesterday and told to clean up their act. Speaking at a workshop on "Reforming Culture and Behavior in the Financial Services Industry," New York Fed president William Dudley connected the dots...

Wharton School professors Angel Berges, Mauro F. Guillén, Juan Pedro Moreno and Emilio Ontiveros have collaborated on a new book about the finance sector of today and the near future. In A New Era in Banking: The Landscape After the Battle they...

There are plenty of people dissatisfied at what they see as insufficient punishment for financial institutions for their roles in the global economic crisis, and not enough regulatory changes to the financial sector. And that can lead us to believe that...

It was supposed to be the next big story in a year of M&A headlines. Rupert Murdoch seemed set on acquiring Time Warner. But the deal fell apart . Guardian finance columnist Nils Pratley doesn't think Murdoch and Fox are just waiting it out for...

The Federal Reserve 's Beige Book for July is out, and it provides a bit of perspective, and an understanding of why the Fed is looking to ease out of quantitative easing. While the recovery has been slow, it does remain steady, and the Fed is seeing...

Barney Frank was certainly not a member of Congress that most bankers wanted to deal with or listen to. But they had to. Now that he is no longer in office, they don't have to, but perhaps they are interested in his thoughts on regulation in today's...

Lloyd Blankfein spent an hour with Charlie Rose earlier this week, and gave as comprehensive a take we've seen him give on his approach to leading one of the world's most powerful financial institutions, Goldman Sachs. In this excerpt, he explains...

There have been some attention grabbing venture capital successes in the last decade--Facebook springs to mind--but the overall record for VCs in the last decade is not so strong. The Kauffman Foundation decided to tackle the question of VC viability...

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is feeling good about the economy. In an interview with Charlie Rose last night, Lew expressed optimism that growth will pick up in 2014, and though he tended to remain cautious about his predictions, he suggested that our...

Daniel Kahneman was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty." He is one...

Paddy Hirsch is back at the Marketplace Whiteboard . This time it is to explain how stock exchanges work. He wants us to let go of the exciting scenes from films like Trading Places, and instead imagine a sort of supermarket.

We humans have tendency to conflate debt and deficit--our well-heeled political leaders included. They are related, of course, but distinct. And Paddy Hirsch steps up to the Marketplace Whiteboard to help us respect the differences:

Joe Knight , co-owner of the Business Literacy Institute , and co-author of the book, Financial Intelligence (both along with Karen Berman ) is out to de-mystify finance. He travels the country to teach business owners and comapny managers the basics...

Writing at VoxEU , Simon J Evenett --Professor of International Trade, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland-likens a currency war to a "rash" likely to break out depending on how policy makers respond to a global recession. But does that...

Two-thirds of the those surveyed for the Bloomberg Global Poll of investors believe the world economy is "either stable or improving." That's the most optimistic response to the poll since May of 2011. The U.S. was ranked as the top market...

Christopher Steiner has an interesting perspective on today's world. He helped bring rapid change to finance in the early days of high tech trading. Now, in his new book Automate This: How Algorithms Came To Rule Our World , he's trying to explain...

China's economy continues to thrive compared to others around the globe. The growth rate for the third quarter was near 9%. Great returns for 2009, and the near future looks even brighter to most economists and investors. But at Fortune/CNNMoney.com...

Wall Street is ready for a new year, and a new decade. As bad as you think the past decade was for stocks, Dow Jones columnist Brett Arends says it may have been worse than you realize. He shows just how bad the 00's were in this short video from...

Why are we often so bad with our money? Noted psychologist Daniel Kahneman says it is because we make bad decisions when we are looking narrowly at a problem. That explains, he says, why we do things like borrow and save at the same time. From Big Think...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde tells Charlie Rose that, while a lot of hard work has been done by Greece's politicians and citizens, and Europe's policy leaders, there is much work to be done. And to avoid a deepening...

Before we get too far down the road of 2013, it may be worth looking back at some of the top stories and lessons from 2012. To that end, The Economist 's series of Editor Reviews are useful. In this review, The Economist finance editor Andrew Palmer...

Simon Johnson has become one of the most active public economists since the global economic crisis. Professor of economics at MIT , a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office , former chief economist for the IMF --Johnson's...

The next few weeks are crucial for the state of the European Union economy. A lot needs to happen, and just about all of it requires an influx of euros, says University of Chicago Booth Business School professor of finance Raghuram Rajan . But where will...

Top Chief Financial Officers have earned their keep through this recession as the credit crunch has put a lot of companies in tight spots. IF the recession does end in the coming months, CFOs will have to shift gears and help steer companies through a...