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Block, the digital-payments firm run by Jack Dorsey, is expanding its small-business loans service to Canada, bringing it into more direct competition with the country's biggest banks.

In a recent survey, just over half of community bankers expressed concern that the central bank will harm the U.S. economy by raising rates too fast in its quest to contain inflation.

In “The Lords of Easy Money,” the journalist Christopher Leonard examines the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing following the 2008 financial crisis.

Fewer new customers signed up during the first quarter as e-commerce sales momentum slowed and inflation rose, forcing the company to reduce its overall growth expectations for the year.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director told Congress he will revise some rules as the bureau looks to address late fees.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bob Menendez say the banks that own the payments system "have chosen to let consumers suffer" from unchecked fraud problems.

From the threat of cyberattacks to discriminatory lending practices, banks need to pay close attention to a number of significant challenges.

Analysts were expecting Capital One’s marketing spending to slow significantly after it surged to nearly $1 billion at the end of the year.

The two companies, which have not received government approval to complete their now year-old pending deal, postponed the deadline to Oct. 31 and have decided to make the combined entity a national bank.

LincolnWay Community Bank in Illinois has agreed to be sold to CoVantage in Wisconsin, adding to a trend of bank-credit union deals that has drawn backlash from many small-bank executives.