Royal Bank of Canada said fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 11% as a jump in trading revenue and a lower tax rate helped counter slowing earnings growth from Canadian banking and declines across other key businesses.

The long-running tension between anti-money-laundering rules and data privacy concerns is especially pronounced in the awkward relationship between regulated financial institutions and digital currency businesses.

Fallout from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed rules governing payday loans are starting to be felt with payday lending operations across the U.S.

Hours after Jamie Dimon alluded to the budding partnership, the banking giant and marketplace lender went public with their plans to launch an online lending platform in 2016.

Banks seldom refinance student loans, but Citizens Financial consumer finance head Brendan Coughlin said that refis have become a cornerstone for his bank — and that it has the niche all to itself.

The marketplace lender LoanDepot has securitized $150 million of its unsecured personal loans.

Peoples Bancorp in Marietta, Ohio, plans to increase reserves by $6.6 million to cover four commercial loans that it's moved to impaired status.

The once-prolific acquirer had been on the sidelines for more than three years while under the ownership of National Australia Bank. But it said when it was spun off from NAB that it was mulling acquisitions and on Monday it announced a deal to buy rival HF Financial for $139.5 million.

Add retail customers to the list of groups raising concerns about possible high-pressure product-sales tactics at Wells Fargo; many of them are considering jumping ship in response, according to a new survey of customer attitudes at big banks. However, Wells' rivals shouldn't celebrate — they are at risk of losing customers, too, for a variety of reasons.

NexBank in Dallas has bought College Savings Bank in Princeton, N.J.

Sage Bank in Lowell, Mass., has agreed to pay about $1.2 million to settle Justice Department allegations of discrimination against minorities in mortgage lending.

The prepaid card giant Green Dot is getting into the matchmaking business.

WASHINGTON — Community banks are poised to score a big win after details about negotiations over a major highway spending bill emerged Tuesday.

The Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled that Capital One Bank (USA) didn’t violate an Iowa debt collection law by pursuing debt without registering with the state as a debt collector.

PRA Group announced Monday that Michelle Link, the company’s chief human resources officer, has been named to Human Resource Executive magazine’s 2015 HR Honor Roll.

The management team of R3 CEV thinks blockchain is going to revolutionize the financial services industry.

Premara Financial in Charlotte, N.C., has raised $8.5 million in a stock offering and plans to exit the Small Business Lending Fund program.

JPMorgan Chase plans a venture with a peer-to-peer lender to small businesses, Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said.