Kristin Broughton

Even with card defaults ticking up slightly, regional banks remain committed to pursuing more credit card business as they look to both diversify their balance sheets and deepen relationships with customers.

Customers of the Pittsburgh company were unable to access their accounts via online and mobile channels for several hours on Tuesday.

The $13.7 billion acquisition could have significant implications for swipe-fee revenue and other grocers' in-store branches. It also raises the question of whether the Seattle e-commerce goliath will soon set its sights on the financial services industry.

The nation's largest bank is dominant in New York, California and Texas, but it has little presence in the Mid-Atlantic and upper Midwest.

While banks are in various stages of development when it comes to distributed ledger technology, the industry is further along than many would assume, big-bank technology executives say.

Post-crisis financial rules have made the business of project lending less profitable for commercial banks. Foreign competitors have stepped in to fill the void, but U.S. banks can carve out a niche as bond offering managers and financial advisers.

The duties of Matt Zames, whose departure was announced Thursday, will be split up among several members of JPMorgan Chase’s operating committee.

Given Jamie Dimon’s stature in banking, it’s unlikely that the longtime CEO's role on the advisory panel of a controversial president could tarnish JPMorgan Chase's reputation. But his involvement nonetheless carries an element of political risk.

Executives at Wells Fargo, SunTrust and PNC insist that credit cards, mortgages and other consumer lines can help pick up the slack as commercial borrowers remain cautious.

Aggressive restructuring moves and stock buybacks are giving CIT time to remold itself, but it will need to show core-banking growth to stave off calls for the company to sell itself.

The gray-bearded ATM would seem like a goner since mobile usage is surging and cash withdrawals are flatlining. But banks such as JPMorgan, B of A and PNC are pouring money into overhauling them in a bid, oddly enough, to attract a younger generation of customer.

JPMorgan Chase's chief caught a lot of Trump blowback at its annual meeting but refused an activist investor's challenge to step down from the president’s council on jobs.

The Minnesota company recently announced that it would stop selling auto loans since credit quality concerns have slowed investor demand, but it is unclear whether its plan to keep all its car loans on its books is less risky.

The bank also announced that it has recruited a BancWest executive to replace Michael Descheneaux as CFO.

The glitch primarily affects payment services, including bill pay and QuickPay, the company’s peer-to-peer service.

James Herbert, 72, has once again postponed retirement. The longtime CEO was scheduled to step down at yearend, but the company says he will remain at the helm through 2020.

The top executives at Guaranty Bank said that, after years of struggles, the $1 billion-asset bank was a month or two away from raising the capital it needed to survive.

Ignacio Alvarez, who takes over this summer from Richard Carrion, addresses the tough challenges the bank faces as looming cuts to government services and benefits could be painful for consumers and businesses on the Caribbean island.

The regional bank has a deal to acquire Western Reserve Partners, which offers merger-advisory services to midsize companies.

Wells survived a fierce proxy fight at its annual meeting, but that’s not stopping some key investors — including the California State Teachers' Retirement System and the New York City pension funds — from pressuring the embattled bank to quickly replace most of its directors.