An L.A. law firm shows how attorneys and mortgage brokers are working to get around the sprit, if not the intent, of regulations designed to protect troubled homeowners.

Social engineering attacks — also known as phishing and spear-phishing — are on the rise against banks and their corporate customers. The stakes are high and rising for both.

With Dodd-Frank and a sluggish economy as background, M&A experts met in New York earlier this week and shared insights into the future of bank deal-making.

Overseeing a bank is trickier than ever. To cope, institutions are seeking devoted directors with specific types of expertise—from coping with regulators to growing revenues.

JPMorgan Chase's "London Whale" episode highlights just how much risk is shared by U.S. and U.K. regulators.

The flagging bank M&A market needs a revival. This week bank executives and investors are sharing strategies to bring back the deals.

Allegations of kickbacks and exorbitant premiums are the focus of three days of hearings that have bankers and insurers in the hot seat.

Dangers involving people, processes and systems are now a greater danger to big banks than credit risk, according to Comptroller Thomas Curry. The statement may be one of many knockoff effects of JPMorgan Chase's recent trading loss.

Bankers are facing "rodeos" and "knife fights" as they try to strike gold again in payments.

The former Trap pay czar says his office created a road map for smart pay practice. His question is whether the lessons of the crisis it will be adopted or merely gather dust.

Yahoo has dipped a toe into the banking and payments waters several times over the years. With the departure of CEO Scott Thompson, it may be back to the drawing board.

Dwolla's CEO, Ben Milne, explains how his company's alternative payment system affects incumbents in banking and payments.

As acquisition financing deals pick up, big banks are seeing a growing number of opportunities to sponsor loans to corporate borrowers.

Jamie Dimon’s mea culpa over a $2 billion trading comes at a lousy time for bankers opposed to trading restrictions. It also raises questions about the effectiveness of big banks’ risk management.

The agency is working on rules to make home lending more transparent – and on a lot of other things too.

Ben Milne, CEO of the alternative payment provider Dwolla, discusses why the company was formed and who its major investors are.

When it comes to mobile banking, the best approach may be to rely on mobile devices as little as possible.

A tiny merger in Maine could prove a test case for a type of deal that risk-averse acquirers have been struggling to pull off.

With strong ledgers and creative management, many community bankers are proving they can thrive despite greater regulatory hurdles and the ever-present threat of large banks.

Gov. Daniel Tarullo met in private with big bank CEOs and talked in public about the progress of regulatory reform last week. American Banker’s editors discuss the takeaways.