When community lenders report second-quarter results next month, all eyes will be on deposit levels and funding costs. By extension, analysts expect more banks to roll out expense reduction plans to protect their bottom lines.

The allegation that Binance encouraged the use of location-obscuring technology so that it could illegally serve U.S. clients is a symptom of a broader problem for financial services companies.

JPMorgan Chase, Regions Financial and TD Bank Group are among those deploying technology to level the playing field for customers of varied abilities.

Rising interest rates on loans, greater borrowing and higher fees on deposit accounts all contributed to the increase. "Altogether, this paints a picture of debt that could really start to strain the checkbooks of American families," said Meghan Greene, a researcher at the nonprofit organization that authored the report.

After working for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for a decade, Marc Minish was determined that he could open his own institution. Now he is the primary organizer of the proposed Nova Bank in Huntsville, Alabama, which has received conditional regulatory approval.

The online game, CoastalWorld, introduces players to the bank's fintech and neobank partners.

Aite-Novarica, RBR rebrand as 'Datos Insights'; Singapore fines DBS, Citi for breaches in Wirecard scandal; the top-ranked employers for working fathers on Wall Street and more in this week's banking news roundup.

Private equity shops looking to fill out their 2024 associate classes were forced to do a second round of recruiting this year after initial efforts fell short.

Through May, there were 32 U.S. bank mergers and acquisitions announced, fewer than half of the 66 deals announced over the same span of 2022. But analysts say higher costs and more regulation could spur consolidation.

Groups interested in organizing new credit unions are faced with the challenge of raising the required capital without having a charter in hand. The NCUA's new provisional charter could help.

As a result of the deleted records, the regulator said that JPMorgan could not come up with requested documents in eight SEC investigations and four other regulatory probes.

Activist investor Abbott Cooper said he could continue his campaign against the Dallas-based company's management and board even if his candidate falls short in her bid to become a director.

Treasury's plan to overhaul the certification process for community development financial institutions will benefit the communities served by those institutions.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued two reports analyzing banking and consumer credit trends in the South, where many rural areas are considered "banking deserts."

The oil-rich emirate has explored a string of ambitious acquisitions in the international banking sector. None have panned out so far. 

The Fed's aggressive tightening has been a boon for money markets, which have drawn investors seeking a haven from volatility and tiring of the skimpy rates on bank accounts.

Data from recent bank failures suggests that prevailing assumptions about which deposits are the most volatile could be dangerously flawed.

The American Bankers Association's Economic Advisory Committee said access to loans is likely to further soften, while defaults and credit losses could increase in the second half of the year.

Further changes to field of membership rules will result in credit unions so big that they lose focus on the communities they were chartered to serve.

Decision-making algorithms powered by machine learning are seen as the next frontier for a more nuanced approach to mortgage decisions but skeptics worry this will just be a new way to discriminate.