Commercial lending

Attorney General Barbara Underwood’s office is looking into whether merchant cash-advance companies engaged in fraud or abused the state court system.

The agency's semiannual report on risks in the industry focused heavily on the high volume of commercial loans as well as banks' exposure to nonfinancial corporate debt, which is near a record share of GDP.

Social Finance, the lending and refinancing startup valued at more than $4 billion, is cutting about 7% of its staff, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Her guidance of a former credit union through the crisis and into a profitable bank, her advocacy for reg relief and other industry priorities, and her vocal support of women seeking to knock down many of the same workplace barriers she faced make her one of our Best in Banking honorees.

Faciam Holdings will pay nearly $68 million for Summit Bancshares.

The Bridgeport, Conn., company is developing a specialty in banking technology businesses. Like so many other small regionals with ambitious growth plans, it faces a tricky balancing act: how to take creative risks without getting in over its head.

He will take over as CEO from Carlos Torres Vila, who becomes chairman at year-end. Still unknown: who will run the company's U.S. bank once Genç moves up.

The amount of debt owed by businesses and the valuations of corporations are elevated, creating a growing source of concern, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

Date, now a venture capitalist, worked with the lending software company's CEO, Dan O'Malley, at Capital One in the 2000s.

It's the latest expansion step in commercial services there by the Atlanta bank, which has no retail branches in Texas.

As the economy softens, traditional banks have an opportunity to win back market share from fintech competitors.

Warren Kornfeld, senior vice president at Moody’s Investors Service, explains why banks’ fear of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and other tech giants is legitimate.

Cracks may be visible in U.S. leveraged loans, but investor concerns about credit are "somewhat overblown," according to JPMorgan Chase.

Minorities are still charged more for mortgages when all other applicable credit factors are equal — both in person and online, according to a new study by the University of California, Berkeley.

His knack for public policy, dedication to technological improvements once considered the province of big banks, and willingness to tear up a business model that he and his father built make him our top Best in Banking honoree.

Bank groups are pushing a variety of proposals to delay the loan-loss rule or soften its impact. The accounting standards board has agreed to review at least one of them — but at a pace that might not be fast enough for lenders.

Efforts to create city- or state-owned banks in Los Angeles, Seattle and New Jersey have suffered setbacks of late, but public banking advocates are taking the long view.

Lenders fear the agency's rule could make most poultry producers ineligible for 7(a) loans.

The lender is working with the fintech Biz2Credit to offer both secured and unsecured digital loans.

A credit-builder loan at Virginia-based The Partnership Federal Credit Union wasn't meeting the needs of as many members as it could. Here's how the CU fixed that problem.