Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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CFPB officials are keeping a close watch on the Qualified Mortgage and ability-to-repay rules to gauge whether further changes should be made. But mortgage numbers don't give a clear picture on what kind of impact they've had.
February 19 -
Greenfield Cooperative Bank in Greenfield, Mass., and Northampton Cooperative Bank in Northampton, Mass., have received regulatory approval to merge.
February 19 -
WASHINGTON The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue its work to ensure credit reports are fair and freely given to consumers, agency director Richard Cordray said Thursday.
February 19 -
Bank of Edwardsville in Illinois is set to have a new leader.
February 19 -
Online banking, ATMs and other advances have curtailed face-to-face transactions, but new Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. research says the brick-and-mortar office isn't going anywhere just yet.
February 19 -
The OTC Markets Group has opened up its community bank marketplace to privately held institutions, offering a chance for investors to monetize their holdings without selling the bank.
February 19 -
Auto lending surged to an all-time high in the fourth quarter yet delinquencies remained low, Experian said in a report issued Thursday.
February 19 -
More than 50 million consumers now have free and regular access to their credit scores through their monthly credit card statements or online, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reported Thursday.
February 19 -
Anthony DeChellis, the former head of Credit Suisse's Private Banking Americas division, has been named president of Jerusalem-based crowdfunding startup OurCrowd.
February 19 -
The chief executive officer of Exeter Finance responds to critics who argue that it's become too easy for Americans with low credit scores to finance a car purchase.
February 19 -
It's taken about three years of experimenting, but Thomas Bloetscher says Regions Bank has started to crack the code on lending to people with scant credit histories.
February 19 -
Legislation to create an independent inspector general at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is circulating again.
February 19 -
Credible Labs in San Francisco has completed a round of seed financing that it says will fuel further growth of its student loan refinancing business.
February 19 -
The FDIC is taking important steps to undo the damage caused by Operation Choke Point but fraud prevention company Early Warning apparently didnt get the memo.
February 19 -
American Express rules barring businesses from asking customers to use lower-cost credit cards violate U.S. antitrust law, a federal judge found.
February 19 -
Pennsylvania government agencies are not allowed to release someone's home address under the Right-to-Know Law without first making the person aware their address has been requested - thus giving them a chance to fight it, a state court ruled this week.
February 19 -
Banks' business models are even more vulnerable to a massive shake-up than industry behemoths like McDonalds and Coca-Cola. The industry will be redefined by technological change and shifting consumer preferences, as well as by regulations that limit the sector's adaptability.
February 19 -
Horizon Bancorp in Michigan City, Ind., has agreed to buy Peoples Bancorp in Auburn, Ind.
February 19 -
Freddie Mac will return $900 million to the Treasury Department next month, bringing total payments to nearly $21 billion above what it received in federal aid after the 2008 credit crisis.
February 19 -
Two weeks after U.S. bank remittances to Somalia dried up, regulators and lawmakers are making only slow progress at preventing a potential humanitarian crisis.
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