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The market for short-term installment credit is growing among millennials and Gen Z consumers who distrust credit cards. Banks are letting a golden opportunity slip away.

James Kim will succeed James Ford, who is retiring, as chief executive.

Net income significantly recovered compared with a year earlier, totaling $70.4 billion. But the average net interest margin fell to another record low as lending remained sluggish, the FDIC said in its quarterly update.

The New Jersey bank plans to reinvest half of the savings into technology development and hiring.

The Rhode Island bank has entered into an agreement to acquire JMP Group, which focuses on the health care, technology, financial services and real estate sectors.

The program, Balance Connect, allows consumers to link their checking account with as many as five other Bank of America accounts and transfers available funds when needed for a fee that's lower than the company's existing overdraft charges.

Marquette University has formed a partnership that will give undergraduate business students experience working with grassroots lenders in Panama, Honduras and Nicaragua. The goal is not only to teach the basics of commercial lending, but also to instill some idealism in the next generation of bankers.

JPMorgan Chase is buying a majority stake in Volkswagen AG’s payments platform, extending its services further into the auto industry.

PayPal Holdings said it will acquire the Japanese upstart Paidy for 300 billion yen ($2.7 billion) as it seeks to deepen a push into buy now/pay later products.

The agency’s enforcement action against Better Future Forward says the nonprofit’s income-share agreements — an alternative education finance product — must follow the Truth in Lending Act just like other forms of student loans.