Google today updated its mobile wallet to allow payments from any credit or debit card, a move that fundamentally changes the company's approach to working with issuing banks.

Alive CU, the former Blue Cross credit union known till last month as Healthcare's Cooperative CU, is expanding outside of healthcare facilities with a deal to buy two stand-alone branches from Space Coast CU.

A reluctance by community bankers to engage in a price war with bigger banks over commercial and industrial loans has allowed less-competitive commercial real estate lending to slowly make a comeback.

HF Financial (HFFC) has agreed to provide its largest shareholder with confidential information after the investor threatened to run its own candidate for the Sioux Falls, S.D., company's board.

A shakier global economy and increased rebate and incentive payments have raised concerns about the card giant's growth prospects for the remainder of 2012.

FHFA acting director DeMarco's rejection of principal reductions for underwater homeowners led some to praise his judgment and others to call for his termination. What's your take?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken its first civil action, suing and effectively stopping business at a Los Angeles law firm that charged homeowners for loan modifications that allegedly never happened.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Alive CU, the former Blue Cross credit union known till last month as Healthcare’s Cooperative CU, is expanding outside of healthcare facilities with a deal to buy two stand-alone branches from Space Coast CU.

Join the editors of American Banker and the industry's most influential policymakers, lawmakers and executives to discuss the issues that remain at the forefront of the regulatory landscape: CFPB, Volcker Rule, TAG, fair lending enforcement, Basel III and the impact the elections will have on financial institutions.

PLYMOUTH, Minn. — NCUA announced this morning it has awarded the remnants of AM Community CU, a failed $135 million Kenosha, Wis., credit union, to TruStone Financial FCU under a purchase and assumption agreement.

While I'm sure some community bankers applauded Sandy Weill's recent call to break up our nation's largest banks, I, for one, did not.

BOK Financial's (BOKF) second-quarter earnings rose from a year earlier and surpassed expectations as fee revenue increased and credit quality continued to improve.

Shares in MasterCard (MA) fell 3.3% in pre-market trading Wednesday, to $422, after the firm posted second-quarter revenue of $1.82 billion, less than the $1.88 billion estimated by 29 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

The Small Business Lending Enhancement Act would let credit unions help small businesses and our economy without costing taxpayers a dime. Whether lifting the cap creates one job or 1,000, it would be a success.

Should the U.S. Postal Service revive a past practice of offering alternative banking services?

United Bank often helps customers who have few alternatives. The minority-owned bank hopes the faith is returned as it complies with a regulatory order.

Churches aren't always pristine credits, especially in this economy. But some banks have new strategies to keep church construction loans on track.

As banks move into new channels, they need new lines of communication, and perhaps a different attitude.

LAKELAND, Fla. — MidFlorida CU, which has been growing its branch network on the Gulf Coast, has agreed to acquire Indian River CU, a troubled $55 million credit union on Florida's other coast.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue FCU is opening a new branch Friday on the Purdue University North Central campus.