Developing banking solutions for lower-income consumers means getting to the heart of the financial volatility they face trying to make ends meet.

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Global Payments and Heartland Payment Systems have a chance to create an international powerhouse focused on small to medium sized business, restaurant and education payments, if they can meld their technology post-acquisition and retain Heartland's management.

The agency released a plan Tuesday that would provide incentives for owners of manufactured housing communities to reform their practices if they want to tap financing by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The $467 million-asset mutual thrift appointed Patricia Stetler to the role this week.

The $5.6 billion-asset multibank holding company hired Fontaine to replace Ed Hooks, who has been its counsel since 1992 and who will retire at the end of the year.

Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., has agreed to buy the disbursements business of Higher One Holdings in New Haven, Conn.

Fannie Mae is offering yet another carrot to lenders that have lobbied extensively for relief from loan repurchases.

An interbank loan market that was created for small and regional banks has begun operations, recording $15 million in transactions on its first day.

A startup backed by philanthropist Pierre Omidyar has emerged from stealth mode with technology that promises to provide consistent value and a degree of privacy to electronic money.

A startup backed by philanthropist Pierre Omidyar has emerged from stealth mode with technology that promises to provide consistent value and a degree of privacy to electronic money.

Dave Seleski founded Stonegate in 2005 and the decade since has built it into one of Florida's best-performing banks through a combination of prudent lending and opportunistic buying. Now he's got his sights set on Cuba and playing a key role in bringing that country's economy into the 21st century.

Officials in Horry County, S.C. unveiled a plan Monday for recovering some of an estimated $20 million in unpaid EMS bills.

TransUnion's 2016 auto loan forecast projects stable delinquencies throughout the next year, with delinquency levels remaining flat at 1.11% during year-end 2015 and year-end 2016.

Eastern Bank in Boston has agreed to buy a health care insurance brokerage firm from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance in Milwaukee.

The United Kingdom has already seen the emergence of mobile-first institutions that have won regulatory approval for a banking charter. It is only a matter of time before they invade the U.S. market.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency unveiled a new proposal Tuesday that would detail how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should serve three underserved markets: manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation and rural markets.

Four alleged mortgage modification scammers are banned from selling debt relief products and services under settlements resolving Federal Trade Commission charges that they deceived homeowners facing foreclosure.

A long-awaited proposal to strengthen payday and small-dollar loan rules is nearing release by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau more than nine months after the agency initially unveiled the plan.

Millennials starting their careers with $30,000 in student loans could enter retirement with far less savings than those without any education debt, according to research from the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute.