Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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The National Credit Union Administration has unveiled a proposal to address a federal judge's concerns that its 2016 field-of-membership overhaul could discourage lending in low-income areas.
October 24 -
Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, who will leave the company at the end of the month, has raised net profit and lowered costs by revamping its technology and culture.
October 24 -
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette FCU, originally chartered to serve newspaper employees, has received regulatory approval to merge into a larger institution.
October 24 -
Midsize players like BankUnited, BOK and Fulton Financial plan to rely on selective M&A, catering to niches overlooked by big banks, aggressive recruitment of commercial lenders and other strategies to stimulate revenue growth.
October 23 -
Originally formed to help consumers spot recurring charges, Truebill is adding banking and financial management features to its app.
October 23 -
Huntington Bancshares and U.S. Bancorp also said in recent days that they are eliminating jobs to reduce overhead and improve profits. With net interest margins shrinking and branch traffic continuing to decline, expect more banks to follow suit, analysts say.
October 23 -
Executives say they are passing on more loans as bank and nonbank competitors cut rates and forgo traditional safeguards.
October 23 -
Outages last week at Chime and Varo Money have executives on the defensive.
October 23 -
The Tennessee company has agreed to buy First Advantage, which specializes in financing manufactured housing purchases.
October 23 -
Credit unions have achieved success in areas like auto and consumer loans but there is still room for them to increase their home lending.
October 23 -
Recent years have seen a transformation in credit-card customer acquisition. This report explores how consumers are interacting with the new expanse of marketing and acquisition channels and examines where opportunities and threats to issuers may lie.
October 23 -
Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.
October 23 -
Centreville Bank will pay $116 million in cash for PB Bancorp.
October 22 -
The company agreed to buy Steuben Trust for $107 million.
October 22 -
The $32 million merger will create a bank with nearly $1 billion in assets.
October 22 -
U.S. Bancorp is eliminating thousands of branch workers as it adjusts to changing customer preferences, according to a person briefed on the decision.
October 22 -
A majority of banks globally may not be economically viable because their returns on equity aren’t keeping pace with costs, the consultancy said in its annual review of the industry released this week.
October 22 -
The deal, which is expected to close in mid-2020, would create a company with nearly $18 billion of assets and more than $14 billion of deposits.
October 22 -
The new CEO is the first outsider to head the scandal-ridden bank in decades; Facebook CEO faces the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday to discuss Libra.
October 22 -
An analysis of industry data shows CUs are not the leader in that space they have long claimed to be. Here's why that could come back to bite institutions later on.
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