Business contingency plans aren't just for disasters. Performance contingency plans should become a routine feature of the corporate budgeting process.

Reduction in money to be set aside against swaps trade is victory for banks.

Security experts urge consumers to change their web passwords.

Policymakers worry the market is overreacting to its interest-rate projections.

House Ways and Means Committee members weigh budget impact of extending breaks.

Regional differences in rules boost cost, complexity for companies using derivatives, ISDA says.

Plan would let shareholders veto executive pay packages.

Supplemental leverage ratio rule adopted today applies to eight large banks; their borrowing power is more strictly limited than is their overseas competitors'.