NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Treasury Department retained Wall Street's Morgan Stanley on Tuesday to advise it on its new authority to prop up troubled mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson reached out to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday the United States must find a way regulators can allow investment banks to fail without threatening the stability of the financial system. Adding some flesh to his plan for the ...

Britain and the United States must overhaul their outdated banking regulatory systems to give better advance warning of future economic turbulence, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday. Paulson said the U.S. Federal Reserve needs ...

LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday that the United States must strengthen its process for regulators to unwind failing investment banks without threatening the stability of the financial system. Adding ...

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson joined Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair in calling for bank regulators to have clear procedures for dealing with a failing investment bank. Paulson said it needs to be ...

NEW YORK (AP) - , analysts are already wondering if the plan to be announced by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Monday would help prevent the ... an expanded role in looking at the books of investment banks and brokerages. What remains unclear is exactly how much the Fed would be able to control Wall Street’s freewheeling investment banks —

Following the Bear Stearns bailout, the Federal Reserve made the unprecedented move of setting aside $30 billion to lend to investment banks. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson conceded yesterday that if securities firms were going to ...