The discounts that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used to offer large originators for selling them bulk bundles of mortgages continue to haunt small lenders, who worry a new housing finance system could revive the practice.
An influential task force established by the central bank envisions a future in which the U.S. has multiple real-time payment systems, and in a new report it lays out a series of actions that will be necessary to stitch them together.
U.S. Bank has begun using Einstein, Salesforce’s AI software, to give front-line staff insights into customer activity and recommendations. Other banks are likely to add similar tools.
The California lender, which specializes in trade finance, reported strong growth in commercial and other lending categories last quarter, and it urged the Trump administration to seek fair trade deals with China.
LendKey, whose software helps financial institutions make student, auto and home improvement loans, closed a Series C round led by a fund whose investors include more than a dozen banks.
The Pittsburgh company, pleased with employee and client retention from its March purchase of Yadkin Financial, is looking to hire lenders from other institutions.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sharply criticized the new acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of a report Thursday detailing how industry executives and lobbyists have joined the Trump administration.
The CEO of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a top matchmaker for bank mergers, explains why large banks will soon return to dealmaking after a long absence, the case for starting new banks and the enduring value of branches.
While industry consolidation remains slow compared with previous years, certain regions are humming along with strong volume and improved pricing. Here’s a look at each region based on June 30 data from KBW and S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Readers slam credit unions’ ever-inclusive membership criteria, weigh in on the OCC’s proposed fintech charter, encourage a rewrite of the CRA, and more.
A profile of New York's top cop for banking offers insight into her thinking on hot regulatory issues; the women behind the machine learning at Morgan Stanley and UBS see a future with better advice; plus, Jane Austen and the new Doctor Who.
Announcing that a formerly free product or service will now cost money exposes banks to reputational risk. But the process doesn’t have to end in customers getting angry.
Pace of expansion moderates as real estate remains buoyant but stresses mount in agriculture sector and concerns begin to emerge over the quality of credit applicants.
Post-election exuberance about the prospects for rollback of Dodd-Frank regulations has been tempered by the political realities facing the President and Congress.
In an age of high-speed technology and increasing customer demands for online applications and fast responses, the mortgage loan process remains highly paper-based.
Over the past five years, retail and commercial banks, credit unions, and other financial services organizations have been adopting e-signatures for a variety of use cases.
Cybercrime is an ever-evolving beast, a fully functioning industry incorporating nation states, globally-networked fraud rings and opportunistic lone wolves.
