Many banks have built free-checking scoreboards for people who want to avoid fees, but they’re not putting the numbers up until the end of the month, when a fee has already been assessed.

Regulators and mutual fund executives differ on the stability of money market funds since the financial crisis. The S.E.C. is expected to soon propose more changes in the industry.

Easy-to-understand disclosure forms for opening a checking account should become the banking industry standard.

We may be moving toward a hybrid system somewhere between capitalism and socialism, without anyone even noticing.

Big banks may have canceled plans for new debit card fees, but problems for customers are far from over.

Bucks blog notes Free ATMs NYC offers free withdrawals to all users, who wait for their cash while watching ad playing on machine's screen.

Using card-reading devices and hidden cameras at Chase A.T.M.’s near Union Square, three men stole more than a quarter of a million dollars from nearly 1,500 customers this year.

Citigroup and Deutsche Bank were accused of misleading five credit unions about mortgage-linked securities; the companies neither confirmed nor denied wrongdoing.

Facing a reaction from an angry public and heightened scrutiny from regulators, banks are turning to all sorts of fees that fly under the radar.

American money market funds have played a supporting role in the euro zone crisis: they are short-term lenders to European banks. Before that, they lent to the likes of Lehman Brothers.

With fewer attractive lending and investment options, it is harder for banks to make a healthy profit from the enormous amount in deposits.

As the battle is joined over fees, the big banks want to make you pay, and the most aggressive of the little institutions want to pay you.

While some investors have shifted assets to combat the uncertainty surrounding the debt ceiling debate, managers and regulators of money market funds say they’re optimistic.

As Europe struggles with its debt crisis, a popular haven for conservative investors could be a tad less safe.

Money market funds are sitting on $360 billion worth of European bank short-term debt, leaving open a way for Greek turmoil to play havoc in the United States.