Victoria Finkle

The Twitter account @NeedADebitCard calls attention to people who inexplicably decide to broadcast their debit account details in online photos.

Retailing giant Wal-Mart may be pulling American Express prepaid cards from its shelves due to poor sales, according to an analyst report from Jefferies & Co.

More consumers failed to pay down their home equity lines of credit in the first quarter of 2012, according to the American Bankers Association.

Wells Fargo is the latest of the big banks to unveil simpler checking account disclosures for customers, following rollouts by JPMorgan Chase, Regions and TD Bank.

Regulators are taking a hard look at payday lending practices, and that could give banks an unprecedented edge over storefront operators.

Blogger Felix Salmon tests whether it's faster to deposit a check via mobile phone or at a nearby ATM in a video posted this week.

JPMorgan Chase will stop charging customers overdraft fees for transactions under $5, as part of its efforts to settle a class-action lawsuit about its overdraft practices.

North Carolina's Our State magazine is launching its own credit card with Greensboro-based NewBridge Bank.

Discover has started originating mortgages after buying Tree.com's home loan unit, but executives say the lender will be slow and "sensible" about expanding the business.

An employee of First Federal Savings Bank of Iowa helps rescue a kitten trapped in a ventilation pipe next to one of the bank's branches.

Financial institutions and technology companies are working hard to bring location-based advertising to life, but research in psychology suggests those same offers may be draining a limited resource: our willpower.

Barclays unveiled a video featuring David Hasselhoff earlier this month, as the pop-culture icon cheered on a customer shopping with the bank's new U.K. PayTag device.

FlexWage, which provides short-term financing to underbanked consumers, says its products are cheaper and more customer-friendly than the payday loans that regulators are scrutinizing.

Bank partnerships with colleges and universities may not pay off for students, the consumer group said in a report unveiled Wednesday.

The puffy cartoon birds of popular mobile game Angry Birds will soon grace a new line of bank cards in Russia.

American Banker's metro Washington reporters found themselves working above a crime scene on Wednesday, after a PNC bank branch in the same building was robbed.

Prepaid companies have lowered their card fees over the past few years, but now regulators may give the still-fractured industry another push towards simpler prices.

PNC Financial Services is changing its formula for calculating some bonus rewards points, in the latest example of a bank scaling back on perks for card customers.

A conservative polling firm says that the vast majority of voters have heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The problem: half think they are broken.

Plans to unify mortgage securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been top of mind at several events this month, as the mortgage industry works to jumpstart the securities market in the wake of the financial crisis.