EU Bank Capital, Banks as ‘Utilities,’ Intel: Compliance - Diplomats from the European Union’s 27 member countries failed to reach a deal yesterday in Brussels on how much leeway national regulators should have to force their banks to hold more capital than the region’s law requires, said an EU official familiar with the matter.

Investor Caveats Raised as Startup Funding Rules Loosened - An Internet tool for entrepreneurs to gather small donations got a big boost April 5 when President Barack Obama signed legislation allowing companies to sell equity through crowdfunding websites.

The legacy of waste at the GSA - The big General Services Administration has long needed a big cleanup. But GSA is still in the same sort of mess it was in when the Republicans took over. The main ingredients: favoritism, factionalism, sloppiness, and waste.

Fortune Classic: The legacy of waste at the GSA - Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a story from our magazine archives . In light of the controversy surrounding the General Services Administration's spending habits and the recent Congressional hearings on the subject, we go back 56 years to August 1955, when Fortune reported the GSA "just as much of a mess today as it was in 1952." It's safe to say that not much has changed in the ...