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The credit union now has a community charter to serve seven counties in addition to several select employee groups.

Libra is distancing itself from Facebook not only through a name change, but also by attempting to draw attention toward its digital payment rail instead of the creation of alternative money.

With COVID-19 cases soaring, a growing number of banks, including JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bancorp and Capital One, have pushed back target dates for bringing employees back to offices. Some are even allowing them to work from home indefinitely.

The reduction marks the third time in three years the agency has cut annual fees for national banks.

Fran Godfrey, who has spent more than 35 years at the Michigan-based institution, will step down at the end of January.

The latest bipartisan plan to accelerate the economic recovery would appropriate roughly $300 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, but the legislative package still faces long odds in the divided Congress.

Jobs will be harder to find for graduates, and there are new underwriting platforms that can better predict students' future income in their chosen field.

Elizabeth Magennis recently served as the New Jersey company's chief lending officer. ConnectOne also hired Michael O'Malley, a former OnDeck Capital executive, as chief risk officer.

In November, the Sierra Club singled out Bank of America as "the only major U.S. bank not to rule out financing for the destruction of the Arctic refuge" after its five biggest competitors updated their policies this year.

The digital currency’s recent 90% jump is being fueled by ‘less speculative fever;’ the liquidity facility designed to enable small banks to make more PPP loans has been extended until March.