Melissa Allison

Financial institutions are filing suspicious activity reports on people at a rate that should make 2001 another record year. The so-called SARs are filed with the government when bank employees...

The California Department of Corporations has filed an $8.5 million civil suit charging business units of consumer finance giant Household International Inc. with charging excessive late fees and prepayment penalties,...

It's time you knew more about BOB. BOB--Bank One Ballpark--is not just home to the Arizona Diamondbacks, who won their first World Series in the stadium last Sunday. BOB, also...

In an ongoing effort to cut costs, Bank One Corp. plans to eliminate up to 800 positions in its First USA credit card unit and vacate a 200,000-square-foot customer-service facility....

Bank One Corp. officials said last week that if the Illinois General Assembly does not pass a measure allowing the bank to sidestep two provisions in state lending laws, it...

Bank earnings season kicked off with a thud recently when Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp warned that it would miss analysts' third-quarter expectations by 3 cents per share. That's not to mention...

Lawmakers in Washington are moving quickly to pass legislation that would heighten government controls on data about bank and other financial accounts. In many ways, the new measures would expand...

Hundreds, if not thousands, of bank accounts around the country have been frozen, government sources said Thursday, as investigators try to follow the money trail leading to the terrorists responsible...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possibly suspicious equity or options trading in shares of 38 companies in the days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, including Chicago-based Bank...