Customers will take charge and new competitors will lay claim to profitable niches as the global nature of the banking industry begins a transformation marked by innovation.

Debit card transaction volume in the US totaled $907 billion in 2005, according to a new report from Packaged Facts, and by 2010, annual debit card transactions will exceed $2 trillion.

Successes or failures of employees in the workplace can be traced to what kind of father they had, a psychologist argues in a new book.

Canadian Melissa Vatkin has joined thousands of couples flocking to the United States to cash in on the disputed luxury of being able to dictate the sex of their next baby.

A tiny biosciences company is developing a promising drug to fight diarrhea, a scourge among babies in the developing world, but it has made an astonishing number of powerful enemies because it grows the experimental drug in rice genetically engineered with a human gene.

Moms who go out to work are healthier and slimmer than stay-at-home housewives, say researchers.

In the early days of e-commerce many critics scoffed at the idea that the Internet would ever be a channel for high-ticket items. However, last year 3.5% of total jewelry industry sales in the US were online.

Rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney diseases, along with obesity, are rising at an alarming rate in Australia, a study shows.