PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — Bank credit card growth last year outpaced credit union card growth for the first time since 2007, a figure cards experts say indicates much tougher competition is ahead for CUs, especially around rewards.

Other payments fights are grabbing more headlines, but banks are pushing hard against the Federal Trade Commission's proposed ban on the use of remotely created checks by telemarketers.

The "5/5" attempts to give consumers more certainty about what they will owe in future years, splitting the difference between traditional ARMs and the more expensive, but lower-risk, fixed-rate mortgage.

Microsoft has acknowledged a security flaw in its widely used Internet Explorer browser that could put online banking users at risk.

More than 4,800 consumers were defrauded by National Card Monitor LLC, a telemarketing operation that promised to lower consumers’ credit card interest rates for an advance fee.

If bankers want their branches to be successful, they’ll have to start thinking beyond cost-efficiency, says Paul Seibert, vice president of financial design for EHS Design.

Eastern Bank in Boston has established a new unit to develop technologies for itself and other banks and has tapped the former leaders of the tech startup PerkStreet to run it.

An Ohio county is reviewing whether to sell its delinquent properties as a bundle through a tax lien sale with the successful bidder then pursuing the debts.

Bank of America (BAC), which last month won approval to lift its dividend for the first time since the financial crisis, said it will suspend that increase and $4 billion of planned buybacks because of an error in its capital planning.

State Bank Financial (STBZ) in Atlanta has agreed to buy Atlanta Bancorp.

BTC China halted local-currency deposits to clients' China Merchants Bank Co. accounts, as lenders close accounts with Bitcoin exchanges amid government measures to check surging trading in the virtual currency.

Earnings season is a great time to gather clues from bank chiefs on what they see for the economy in the months ahead. Some, like Dick Evans of Cullen/Frost Bankers in Texas, are extremely bullish. Others, like BB&T's Kelly King, fret about revenue growth.

The deVere Group's Nigel Green on the trouble with FATCA for U.S. citizens living abroad.

After the controversy, the architect of a proposal to sell bank services at the post office speaks out.

The real estate developer-turned-savings-and-loan honcho was the face of the S&L crisis, and his influence over five senators made for a heck of a scandal.

Banking executives are adamant: the branch stays in the picture. Heather Landy reports from Retail Banking 2014.

The most profitable 200 community banks and thrifts as ranked by three-year average ROE.

The deal’s approval following months of uncertainty represents a significant milestone in the DOJ’s controversial Operation Choke Point probe.

State regulators in South Carolina closed the $54 million-asset Allendale County Bank late Friday.

Community West Bancshares (CWBC) in Goleta, Calif., said it will redeem almost half of its outstanding preferred stock issued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.