Outstanding consumer credit, a measure of non-real estate debt, rose by a seasonally adjusted $10.5 billion in January from a month earlier, the Federal Reserve reports.

Alamogordo Financial in Alamogordo, N.M., plans to convert from a mutual to a fully stock-owned bank holding company.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's move to collect complaints about online marketplace lenders is a sure sign it is laying the groundwork for rules or enforcement actions against the industry.

Smaller players are losing ground to deep-pocketed large banks that can both absorb compliance costs and invest in the most up-to-date technology, M&T's longtime CEO said in his annual letter to shareholders. He also worried about banks' shrinking role in the ever-changing lending landscape.

In explaining the bank's commitment to the Chase Pay mobile wallet, an executive told investors in February that the mobile payment landscape was going to get more complicated before it gets simpler.

Banks need to rethink their purpose to serve its younger customers, many of whom are inundated with choices. Banks have a tremendous opportunity to win these overbanked customers if they can figure out a way to become the financial hub.

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking aim at marketplace lenders, announcing Monday that it is accepting complaints about the developing industry and releasing a bulletin to inform the public about such firms.

Northern Trust has agreed to buy Aurora Investment Management, a hedge fund portfolio manager that's owned by Natixis Global Asset Management.

HarborOne Bank, a mutually owned co-operative bank in Brockton, Mass., plans to sell shares to the public.

BBVA has acquired Holvi, a Finnish online business banking service.

Are they near New York City? Palm Beach? San Francisco? You are not even warm, according to an analysis of deposit data by IXI Services, a division of Equifax.

A Buffalo, N.Y.-based debt collector allegedly misled and coerced thousands of people into paying debts they possibly didn’t owe, according to a 41-count grand jury indictment.

Triumph Bancorp in Dallas has agreed to buy ColoEast Bankshares in Lamar, Colo.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaint portal showed the number of medical debt collection complaints, through early February, began to dip after August 2015.

Rebeca Romero Rainey, incoming chairman of the ICBA, would like to see the financial services industry add new banks and younger bankers in coming years.

Safe Cash is cozying up to banks by portraying itself as an alternative to two very different corners of financial services—the established Swift bank transfer network and bitcoin, arguably the most well-known virtual currency.

Atlanta is flush with payment processors that handle more than 70% of the nation's transactions. These players now plan to expand their reach even further, hoping to make the southern city a fintech hub to rival Silicon Valley and New York.

Wonder Bancorp and Harvard Illinois Bancorp have extended the deadline for their merger to May 31, according to a joint news release issued Friday.

American National Bankshares in Danville, Va., said in a press release Friday that Dabney Gilliam, its chief administrative officer, will resign at the end of this month to join Bank of Charlotte County.

Randy Conte, the $15.6 billion-asset bank's chief operating officer, will become chief financial officer on April 30 and remain operating chief.