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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 nationĀæs largest mortgage servicers became obligated to follow 304 Āæservicing standardsĀæ 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.