As more departments reach for a piece of the technology budget, banks need to improve coordination to make sure the money is spent efficiently.

Recipients of the 2016 FinTech Forward awards discuss how evolving technology will reshape banking in the years ahead.

Marva Smalls has gotten comfortable with being uncomfortable throughout her career, and she advises others to do the same, particularly aspiring leaders.

Sun Bancorp’s third-quarter profit declined, as the Mount Laurel, N.J., recorded almost $3 million of one-time gains a year ago. Sun’s expenses, however, continued to improve.

Hitachi Ltd. is introducing a system to protect people from being conned into transferring money from their bank accounts at automated teller machines.

Heartland Financial in Dubuque, Iowa, has agreed to buy Founders Bancorp in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

One of the hottest bank technologies is already repeating mistakes of decades past and showing just how far banks have to go to catch up with the times. Here is one easy way to make this emerging tech more appealing to today's customers.

The London-based banking giant has named Vivek Yadav chief administrative officer, and Jeremy Balkin as the new head of innovation.

As banks grow and their business models become more complex, some find that adding a general counsel to the staff makes sense. Bank SNB in Stillwater, Okla., says hiring one allowed it to reduce its legal fees by 80%. Here are the pros and cons.

Mortgage brokers were among the companies that received the regulator's warning letters, but brokers are not required to report HMDA data — leading many to suspect mini-correspondents, which straddle the line between broker and lender, were the recipients.

The Bancorp's stock fell nearly 15% Friday after the Wilmington, Del., company reported a large quarterly loss tied to a bad commercial real estate loan.

The $11.2 billion-asset Banc of California said in a press release Friday that it sold the division the $4.4 billion-asset Hanmi. The companies did not disclose the price.

Samsung sees banking as a long game, and Samsung Pay is its first move. As mobile banking grows, the Korean electronics company believes financial services is ripe with opportunity.

Back in the black and looking increasingly healthy for the first time in a decade, First Mariner is poised to accelerate growth next year.

What matters is what the customer gets, not how they get it. Investing in digital distribution yields little unless banks are delivering the products and services that customers crave.

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SourceMedia, the publisher of American Banker, has unveiled a major content and user experience upgrade to PaymentsSource, its flagship resource for the payments industry.

Santander Consumer USA Holdings in Dallas is expected to make a cash payment of about $115 million to its former chief executive, a payment that was prematurely recorded last year due to an error with its accounting.

The $381 million-asset company said its bank was no longer under a consent order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the South Carolina State Board of Financial Institutions.

A market that some Ginnie Mae issuers tap to help finance their mortgage operations has a dwindling number of investors.