1955: When Chase Was Too Small to Bail

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2011 at 10:55 AM

American Banker has a fun flashback that helps show how out of whack our financial system has gotten in the... More

American Banker Delves into Debt-Collecting Woes at Chase

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 13, 2012 at 03:26 PM

It looks more and more like the foreclosure scandal is a symptom of a larger problem. American Banker's Jeff Horwitz... More

Audit Notes: 1966 Wages, Fracking’s Chickens and Eggs, Whistleblowers

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 16, 2012 at 02:35 AM

David Cay Johnston looks at the latest income-distribution data from Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, and notes that in this... More

Audit Notes: Banker’s Good FHA Work, FBI’s Small Fry, Michael Barone

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 16, 2011 at 08:20 PM

The American Banker's Jeff Horwitz has another excellent report on the Federal Housing Administration and its former commissioner David Stevens,... More

Audit Notes: Forced Fed, Bank Wages, Schroeder on Buffett

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 1, 2011 at 07:48 PM

The press continues to rifle through the Fed's discount window data dump, finding that Some 70 percent of all loans... More

Audit Notes: Gutting Blame-the-Borrowers, Geithner Going? Wages and Profits

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2011 at 06:00 PM

Barry Ritholtz says "First, Blame the Lenders" in a good post today over at The Big Picture on the crisis... More

Audit Notes: Mortgage Industry Conflicts of Interest Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 25, 2011 at 05:11 PM

American Banker has a smart story on "How Not to Make a Mortgage Servicing Settlement," taking a look at the... More

Audit Notes: Overdraft Ethics, CNN’s Wall Street Apologist, U.S. Gas Boom

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM

American Banker's Jeff Horwitz finds some emails that offer an interesting look into how banks make unethical decisions to gouge... More

Audit Notes: Payment Protection, Greek Austerity, Inflation Bugaboo

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 8, 2012 at 01:49 AM

American Banker's Victoria Finkle and Jeff Horwitz report on the credit card industry's payment-protection racket and note that the Consumer... More

Audit Notes: Romney’s Black Box, Banker Probe, Laffer Curveball

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 12, 2012 at 08:01 PM

Politico makes a good point about how reporters are having something of a hard time assessing Mitt Romney's tenure at... More

Bank of America’s Disastrous Countrywide Deal

The “dumb” money squandered tens of billions of dollars on Angelo Mozilo’s predatory lender

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 30, 2011 at 10:32 AM

In The Big Short, hedge fund investor Steve Eisman recalled the time he heard Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis... More

Excellent Reporting on the Revolving Door By American Banker

Paper’s FOIA request shows a former FHA commish palling around with his future employer

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 4, 2011 at 01:46 PM

American Banker has a terrific story on the revolving door, digging into the records of former Federal Housing Authority commissioner... More

Mostly Skimpy Coverage of JPMorgan’s Overdraft Settlement

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 8, 2012 at 10:16 AM

Press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase is paying $110 million to settle a class-action suit against it for gouging its... More

Reuters On the “Payment Protection” Scam

Plus, an American Banker columnist’s predatory-lending past

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 16, 2011 at 01:35 PM

Reuters puts the spotlight on the scam that is the multi-billion-dollar credit-card insurance industry, which promises to cover payments if... More

The Banker Finds Possible “Trouble” at Chase (UPDATED)

Debt-collection lawsuits dry up in at least five states, raising questions about past practices

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 11, 2012 at 02:13 PM

Back in June, The Wall Street Journal reported a big scoop that press favorite Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase had dropped... More

The Foreclosure Scandal Continues (UPDATED)

American Banker and Reuters show banks thumbing their nose at the law

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 1, 2011 at 01:41 PM

It's clear that the banks aren't much chastened by the foreclosure scandal that erupted last fall and which threatens to... More

What Do I Owe You?

Don’t ask Bank of America

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 3, 2012 at 07:18 PM

When a bank sells bad debts to third-party collectors, the first order of business would seem to be to tell... More