Consumer credit default data through January shows a slight upward move in default rates from lows experienced last year, according to Tuesday’s report by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has asked the Department of Education to forgive the school loans of hundreds of students from the state enrolled at Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit company investigated by federal authorities for practices that left many students deeply in debt.

Union Bankshares in Richmond, Va., and Entegra Financial in Franklin, N.C., are rebranding their banks.

Social Finance, an alternative lender that has made its name in student loans, has branched out into unsecured personal loans.

WASHINGTON — Bankers, technology CEOs and President Obama are throwing everything they have at countering the threat of cyber attacks, but based on a White House summit Friday on the issue, it's far from clear that it will be enough.

Racial disparity in small-business loans remains glaring, despite some improvement. Lenders' unfamiliarity with African-American communities is part of the problem, but so is the need for financial education among prospective borrowers.

Loan demand, which bankers say remained weak well after the recession, is picking up, and the industry is adjusting business models to meet it. But banks may want to act fast.

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Georgia state regulators on Friday closed the $272 million-asset Capitol City Bank & Trust Co., in Atlanta, the third institution to fail this year.

Athens Federal Community Bank has applied for a national bank charter as it broadens its focus beyond residential mortgage lending.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has introduced a bill that would impose new regulations on employers that pay workers through payroll cards.

Branch closings draw big headlines, but several large banks are entering new markets — or bulking up in underrepresented cities — by adding branches and hiring lenders. Bank of America, for instance, is planning a retail push in Denver and Minneapolis.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

Just three years ago, CEO David Nelms heralded the purchase of LendingTree Loans as a milestone in Discover's evolution from a strict credit-card company to a broad-based consumer lender. Now he is hinting that it might exit the mortgage business.

Lenders including Bank of America and Citigroup are accelerating their sales of soured U.S. mortgages as investment firms compete to buy the debt.

Lenders are seeing higher demand for homes but are expecting only modest growth in sales this year due to the limited housing stock.

A recent research paper found that community banks' assets, along with market share in most types of commercial lending, have fallen since the Dodd-Frank Act was passed. The report is giving advocates of smaller institutions more data to rally around.

Three mortgage companies are facing regulatory action from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for misleading consumers with advertisements implying U.S. government approval of their products.

A lender has agreed to pay Pennsylvania consumers $8 million in restitution as part of a settlement to resolve claims it illegally provided loans.

The city of Eugene, Oregon has hired collection law firm Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, based in Austin, Texas, to help collect past due parking fines.