New rules have made it more challenging to originate mortgages without drawing attention from regulators. Mercantile Bank in Michigan, however, believes that positive trends in its biggest markets are incentive enough to hire lenders and improve its systems.

Bitcoin payments company BitPay has partnered with the payments giant to launch a co-branded debit card allowing U.S. consumers to spend the digital currency at Visa merchants,

The hits that alternative lenders like OnDeck Capital are taking shouldn't be a surprise for an industry built on unsustainable business models.

A phone billing company will pay $5.2 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated a court order that settled earlier charges of phone bill cramming by the FTC.

Consumers are boosting the balances of their personal savings accounts and are also more likely to rollover their monthly credit card balances, according to the 2016 Consumer Financial Literary Survey.

Freddie Mac's second quarterly loss in less than a year makes it clear profitability is getting tougher as it shrinks. But it's a concern that must be weighed against more long-term efforts to reduce Freddie's overall credit risk exposure.

Serving on a bank board is a tough gig, and the fact that a number of bank directors sit on the boards of four or more public companies is raising questions about whether they are too busy to be good watchdogs.

Prudential Bancorp in Philadelphia has a new chief executive.

With agencies created by the Dodd-Frank Act embroiled in court battles and continued questions dealing with "too big to fail," can anyone honestly say the reform law is working?

Investors Bancorp in Short Hills, N.J., has agreed to buy Bank of Princeton in Princeton, N.J.

Small-business optimism has slipped slightly on concerns about growth prospects and the presidential election campaign, according to a Wells Fargo and Gallup survey conducted in early April.

Prosper Marketplace Inc., one of the largest U.S. online lending platforms, is slashing its workforce 28 percent, joining rivals in signaling investors aren’t as eager to fund loans after years of rapid growth.

Credit Acceptance Corp. received a subpoena from the Maryland attorney general regarding its repossession and sales policies, the subprime lender disclosed Monday.

The $1.2 billion-asset Revere said in a press release Tuesday that it will pay $65.1 million in stock for the $514 million-asset Monument.

The $8.6 billion-asset WesBanco said in a press release Tuesday that it will pay $221 million, or $39.05 a share, in cash and stock for the $1.6 billion-asset Your Community Bankshares.

At least one banker has gone public with expectations that the OCC will force his institution to hold more capital. More could soon follow.

New community banks chartered in the years before the crisis tended to open in less-concentrated markets, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. working paper released Tuesday.

Some buyers are hanging in there, but as OnDeck Capital's disappointing first-quarter results show, investors who acquire and securitize marketplace loans are heading for hills. Among the reasons: fear of defaults, unfavorable pricing and shrinking loan yields.

First National Bank of Santa Fe in New Mexico has sold its insurance business, First Santa Fe Insurance Services, to Hub International, a brokerage based in Chicago.

Entrepreneurs and other financial-technology experts give some common-sense advice including: watch your pennies, live in the right places and choose your associates carefully.