Online marketplace lenders found themselves in the congressional crosshairs Tuesday just as some lawmakers are attempting to provide the industry with sought-after reforms.

Horizon Bancorp in Michigan City, Ind., has agreed to buy CNB Bancorp in Attica, Ind.

Despite recent controversy over Tesla crashes, the march toward autonomous driving technology continues. And that means big changes for auto lenders.

The $25 billion-asset company said in a press release Tuesday that BankUnited Small Business Finance is now making loans in Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin.

A couple of years ago, the activist investor Joseph Stilwell said Anchor Bancorp in Lacey, Wash., deserved more time to try to right itself. Apparently he thinks that time is up.

Banks with a special focus, such as social equality or environmental sustainability, have to overcome additional hurdles while looking for an acquisition.

The director of innovation at ATB Financial explains why his bank became one of the first to send cross-border payments on the Ripple network, and whether this could be a plausible alternative to Swift.

The leading Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee said Tuesday he was "optimistic" about lawmakers' making changes to improve the Dodd-Frank Act next year, while lauding JPMorgan Chase's decision to raise its minimum wage from $10.15 an hour to $12.

Attempting to impose the fundamental laws of a particular lending universe on another will lead to an eventual collapse of a particular firm or industry segment.

BancAlliance, a consortium of more than 200 community banks, is partnering with the digital wealth management firm Personal Capital.

Nearly half of U.S. consumers say they have been hit by credit card fraud within the last five years, and those breaches are becoming more commonplace, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Santander Consumer Holdings in Dallas on Tuesday appointed William Rainer chairman, and it announced that Blythe Masters has resigned to advise Banco Santander — its Spanish parent company — on the blockchain.

Synovus Financial in Columbus, Ga., has plucked its next chief financial officer from in-state rival SunTrust Banks.

The combination of smarter consumers and likely CFPB action have, oddly enough, pushed banks, especially large ones, to raise overdraft fees in recent months.

Offering a new product or considering a merger may boost returns, but the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency says changes in strategy can be risky.

The management team at Bank of the Ozarks knows it has a dependency on commercial real estate. But they assert that sound underwriting, and efforts to diversify, are what really matters when assessing risk.

Banks are experimenting with apps and mobile features that are available to everyone as they search for new ways to connect with potential customers.

First Hawaiian Bank in Honolulu will be spun off rather than sold.

An industrywide springtime boomlet in business activity shed some of its momentum in June, according to the latest reading of American Banker's Index of Banking Activity. The IBA's composite index dipped to 54.9, down from 57.0 a month earlier. While that suggests an industry in modest expansion, it also is the weakest reading since January.

Most components of the index declined from their May levels and two of them — both of which track pricing on new lending — slipped below 50, suggesting that banks on balance lost whatever modicum of pricing power they had coming into the month.

In addition, respondents to the June survey were generally cautious about their consumer lending businesses (although a fair share of individual respondents remained upbeat, particularly with respect to auto lending).

All in all, the June results pointed to an industry more guarded in outlook, which is not surprising given the prevalence of concern that events at home and abroad (Brexit) would further postpone interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve.

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Banks frequently blame "the rules" in shunning partnerships with fintech startups. However, compliance can be a positive force, not something that inhibits growth.