Business Development Metrics

The capital-hungry insurer agrees to buy a bank in order to get in on the Treasury Department's Capital Purchase Program.

The Fed's paper-buying program seems to be working. Now some major companies with less-than-stellar credit want in as well.

The action will return pay earned by employees and agents, and is aimed at discouraging departures.

The rating agency mounts a defense of the securitization of residential mortgage-backed securities.

It's harder for investors to compare banks' financial statements now that IAS 39 lets them decide whether to reclassify "held for sale" assets as "held to maturity," the rating agency says.

The regulator releases its roadmap for transitioning U.S. companies to international accounting rules, and estimates the costs.

Announcement comes on top of 23,000 in reductions earlier in the year; signifies more pain ahead for banking.

Fusing CSR information into financial reporting might be illuminating for some stakeholders, but it's often a challenge for companies to do.

Companies may still have too many heads at headquarters.

The Fed's paper-buying program seems to be working. Now some major companies with less-than-stellar credit want in as well.

To weather the credit crisis and a recession, CFOs will have to unlearn much of what they thought they knew about capital structures.

The rating agency mounts a defense of the securitization of residential mortgage-backed securities.