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Legg Mason Inc. announced the appointment of a new chairman at its annual meeting on Tuesday.

Robert Reich says the excesses of the NSA and of Wall Street banks have a surprising amount in common.

The Baltimore Sun has five questions for Toby Bozzuto, president of real estate developer The Bozzuto Group.

Brian Rogers, manager of the T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, won't be voting the fund's shares in support of splitting the role of CEO and chairman at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Robert Reich says we should be concerned about the ethics of the boardroom, not the bedroom.

Harford County officials raised nearly $115 million through two bond sales Tuesday to finance existing and new capital projects and to pay off previous bond issues.

Years later, the big winners in Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 case are the investment firms that profit from the boom-and-bust cycles of Wall Street.

In summer 2007, a complicated deal to buy Tribune Co. and take it private reflected all the dangers of an easy-money era when caution was pushed aside.

After spending more than four years embroiled in a contentious Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, the reorganized Tribune Co. will emerge Monday under new owners and a newly appointed board, freed from its massive debt and facing an uncertain future, officials said.

Ten months after the national mortgage settlement was hailed as a major step in reforming a broken system, some homeowners are getting aid — but some housing advocates say the overall results are not what they'd hoped.

Harford County Public Schools will finance the third phase of its energy improvements initiative through JPMorgan Chase Bank at an interest rate of less than 2.1 percent.

Dunbar Armored has been in the armored car business for nearly 90 years. But the Hunt Valley-based company is now branching into a new way to protect banks' and businesses' money and valuables: cybersecurity.

On Tuesday, five of the nation¿s largest mortgage servicers became obligated to follow 304 ¿servicing standards¿ laid out in a national mortgage settlement earlier this year.

Q&A with Baltimore lawyer Joel Sher, who is pursuing major mortgage-related actions against banks.

Nearly 3,000 Maryland homeowners received almost $225 million in relief between the beginning of March until the end of June from the national settlement with five mortgage servicers, the state's attorney general announced Wednesday.

The city's effort to recover hundreds of millions in losses stemming from a rate-rigging scheme by the world's largest banks is a first step toward restoring confidence in the financial markets

Jonah Goldberg says capitalism isn't evil, but conservatives need to be concerned about corruption

The federal judge in Tribune Co.'s long-running bankruptcy case said in a memorandum Friday that he would approve a reorganization plan proposed by the company and its largest creditors, overruling objections brought by numerous parties.

Libor affair shows banks have been betraying consumers' trust on a massive scale

Why Dodd-Frank needs to be extended to the foreign branches of big U.S. banks

Last year's Occupy encampments are gone, but but activists continue to work for economic justice in Baltimore by focusing on the issue of foreclosures.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner addressed hundreds of Baltimore's business leaders this morning in Harbor East.

Republicans have it backward, they would regulate our private lives but let banks do whatever they want

Wells Fargo borrowers potentially eligible for mortgage rate reduction under the national settlement with big banks are being notified this month, Maryland's attorney general said Friday.

Finally, a spotlight will be shone on a widespread business practice that forces unhappy customers to settle disputes through binding arbitration rather than by telling their story in court.

A federal judge has ordered the nation's five largest mortgage servicers to provide nearly $1 billion in aid to Maryland homeowners as part of $25 billion settlement.

Maryland's attorney general said Friday that the nearly $60 million pot of money he controls from the national mortgage settlement would be spent only in ways designed to help homeowners and communities struggling with foreclosure.

The number of Maryland homeowners behind on their mortgage payments but not yet in foreclosure inched downward in 2011.

As the federal government and 49 states signed onto a landmark mortgage relief settlement, housing advocates and others pointed to shortcomings.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler is right to sign on to a settlement with the nation's five largest banks over problems in the foreclosure process.

Maryland joins other state attorneys general in an agreement with the nation's top five mortgage servicers over shoddy and illegal foreclosure practices.

Calif., N.Y., Fla. were on fence about joining; announcement expected Thursday

Publication reports that Chase is no longer suing to collect on bad debts in Maryland and some other states

Consumers are more interested in switching banks given debit card fees.