America’s biggest bank announces a 23 percent drop in fourth quarter profits but still has its best year ever.

The number of bank failures in 2011 fell from the previous year, but banks are far from being out of the woods just yet.

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 European Central Bank yesterday printed $640 billion worth of euros, almost the same amount of money as the TARP program used by the U.S. government during the financial crisis in 2008.

The European Central Bank initiated a plan to stop a credit crunch in Europe, and demand for cheap money has exceeded expectations.

Banks today are reeling, just a day after Standard & Poor's downgraded dozens of financial institutions all around the world — including here in the United States.

The planned liquidity injection might not solve all the problems in Europe, but it shows that central banks are getting serious.

Pressure builds in Europe as clear signs begin to show that a default there would hit the U.S. banks hard.

President Obama is hosting some top European Union officials at the White House this morning, as concerns grow about what the debt crisis in Europe could do to the American economy.

Even after stress tests on European banks were deemed unsuccessful, a new process will now seek to determine how U.S. banks will react in the case of a European financial crisis.