Brian Browdie

Visa said Wednesday that Bank of America will offer the card association's digital wallet service, dubbed V.me, to its online banking customers.

Lawsuits by the Federal Housing Finance Agency that charge Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), HSBC and Credit Suisse (CS) with wrongdoing in the sale of securities backed by residential mortgages may advance, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Wednesday.

Credit Suisse (CS) has won a small victory in a legal battle over its sale of mortgage-backed securities.

Glen Trudel, an attorney who specializes in credit card transactions, has joined the law firm Ballard Spahr as a partner in its Wilmington, Del., office.

Singapore technology group has honored an interactive display wall that lets bankers interact with corporate treasurers using gestures.

Provident New York Bancorp has hired veteran financial industry executive Luis Massiani to be its next chief financial officer.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused two members of Congress of pressuring MasterCard and Visa to block payments to his group after it published thousands of confidential messages.

Attunity (ATTU) has introduced a platform that enables users of Amazon's (AMZN) Simple Storage Service to move data around the cloud conveniently.

StoneCastle Cash Management, an investment adviser that provides funding solutions for community banks, is buying a listing service for buyers and sellers of certificates of deposit.

U.S. Bancorp is beefing up its prepaid card business.

Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) has hired Peter Arendt, a veteran executive from Bank of Oklahoma, to lead a new agribusiness initiative.

The chief executive of Monarch Financial Holdings (MNRK) in Chesapeake, Va., has been elected to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's board.

National Mortgage Insurance, which is based in Emeryville, Calif., said the state's insurance department has approved its application to sell insurance in the Golden State.

A series of lawsuits that charge some of the nation's biggest banks with misleading investors in connection with the sale of hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities may come down to a question of timing.

Bruce Lee will step down as its chief credit officer for Fifth Third Bank (FITB) in Cincinnati, for personal reasons, at the end of the year, the $117 billion-asset company said Monday.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., will have a new chief executive for the first time in nearly 22 years, with James D. "Dan" Rollins 3rd succeeding Aubrey Patterson.

The $8 billion-asset subsidiary of Northwest Bancshares (NWBI) said Wednesday it would buy The Bert Company, which operates an employee benefits and property and casualty insurance firm known as The Bert Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pa.

Mortgage applications fell last week after interest rates edged up and consumers dialed back on refinancing.

A lawsuit that charges a Lebanese bank with using a New York account to transfer millions of dollars the bank knew would benefit Hezbollah can go forward in New York, the state's highest court ruled on Tuesday.

Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) has hired a veteran executive from Bank of America (BCA) to lead a new energy lending initiative.