Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the biggest custodian of other firms' assets, is planning what it says is the first online market in Europe to make it easier to trade hard-to-value asset-backed securities.

The Treasury Department said it intends to sell warrants in Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and Lincoln National Corp. that it got as part of a bailout of the two insurers.

Limra is partnering with Smarsh, a provider of secure e-mail archiving solutions compliant with Finra and Securities and Exchange Commission standards, to provide these services to its members.

Adolfo Marzol, an official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is optimistic that technological improvements and other changes can help draw Federal Housing Administration lenders back to the fold.

Housing finance reform proposals could make it challenging for community banks and credit unions to serve rural mortgage markets, according to a report issued Wednesday by Brookings and the Center for Responsible Lending.

The credit union encouraged members to save on interest by converting loans they took out elsewhere to Educators Credit Union loans.

The latest cyberattacks pointing to the Russian government show that U.S. federal agencies and banks still lack a clear, collaborative game plan.

There's a wide open market with plenty of opportunity not just for challenger banks but for financial technology as an industry to set themselves apart from incumbents and gain market share, says Veem's Marwan Forzley.

Familiar with personalized offers and options from other industries, patients are tired of a one-size-fits-all payment model, says Visitpay's Kent Ivanoff.