Lending

Providing basic financial services could bolster the post office's income

Banks are willing to lend to buyers with subprime credit ratings again. Now you can be underwater on your car as well as your house.

A brewer in Oakland says he'd love to expand, if he could only get a loan. His story illustrates a common complaint among small business owners.

SoFi launches an experimental new, community-based student lending program that provides students with lower cost loans and school alumni with a unique investment opportunity.

Marketplace economics editor Chris Farrell says it's all very well telling us to save, but where are we supposed to put our money?

From pesky hidden fees to the status of Dodd-Frank financial reform, from the impact of Europe's debt crisis to lending -- we look back at the year in banking.

The ECB offers a historic $639 billion to 500 European banks.

Between July to September of this year, bank credit lending was up 10 percent -- the highest rate since before the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.

And this final note. For all the pronouncements that we'd become better, smarter savers out of the financial crisis, looks like the wallets are out...

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