Banks

Towards the end of this year, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision will agree on a third round of bank regulations for safer banking standards around the world. Marketplace's Bob Moon sees what effect Basel III can have on the U.S. financial system.

Part of the new financial reform law offers big rewards to whistle-blowers who report wrongdoing to the SEC.

The new financial regulation gives private equity firms more latitude to invest in banks, a measure which could mean huge money-making potential.

The Treasury is selling Citigroup shares, as the company's way of owing its TARP money, and hired Morgan Stanley to manage the shares for them -- and to help the brokerage out. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

European banks underwent "stress tests," to restore trust in the European banking system during the debt crisis, but some question if the tests were rigorous enough.

Regulators in London will give a grade to more than 90 banks in Europe. But critics say the stress tests ignore a eurozone restructuring/default scenario.

Because of conflicting local, state and federal laws regarding medicinal marijuana, banks are uneasy about allowing clinics to have accounts with them.

A tax introduced in the U.K. last year to curb the size of bankers' bonuses is creating a windfall for the British government -- and U.S. banks are paying the bulk of it.

Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before Congress today about his plans to revive the economy. But he might not have much new data to share.