[Business Wire] – POMPANO BEACH, Fla.—-Jeffrey Schultz, Secured Financial Network, Inc.’s President and CEO, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Redfin Network, Inc.

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Secured Financial Network, Inc. Subsidiary Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement with ICG Software Corp.

Astoria Financial Corporation , announced that it will be participating in the Barclays Capital 2010 Global Financial Services Conference on September 13, 2010.  Astoria’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Monte N.

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Astoria Financial Corporation to Present at Barclays Capital 2010 Global Financial Services Conference (PR Newswire)

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Riverview Community Bank has announced Kim J.

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Riverview Community Bank Hires Kim Capeloto (GlobeNewswire)

Pressure continues to mount on President Obama to select Elizabeth Warren as the nation’s first consumer financial protection regulator.

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Pressure mounts for ‘Sheriff’ Elizabeth Warren

National Financial Partners Corp. , a provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services announced today that Jessica M. Bibliowicz, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and Donna J.

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NFP to Present at the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods 2010 Insurance Conference (PR Newswire)

An advocacy group is calling for the ouster of former Sen. Alan Simpson, the co-chairman of President Obama’s bipartisan debt commission, who described Social Security as a “milk cow with 310 million tits!” in an email.

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Co-chair of Obama debt panel under fire for remarks

NEW YORK—-Discontinuation of a government-mandated terrorism backstop would have an adverse effect on the long-term availability and affordability of terrorism insurance, according to a letter submitted by Marsh to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.

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Discontinuing TRIA Will Put American Business at Risk: Marsh (Business Wire)

“This committee doesn’t function well on a partisan basis, and in the 22 months that I’ve been chairman of it we’ve never acted that way.” That was Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd speaking in December of 2008, when American voters had the audacity to believe a new President’s promise to rise above the short-sightedness of partisan Washington and unite most Americans around solving big problems.

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A bitterly divided Congress, fanned by the White House

General Motors, fresh off two profitable quarters, is planning a public offering expected to raise as much as $16 billion.

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Car Czar: Billions lost with GM is ‘best stimulus around’

One of the great misconceptions in this country is that what happens in Washington determines what happens in financial markets.

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Let the Bush tax cuts expire