A bill that would have capped payday loan rates at 36% failed to get through committee, but credit unions have pledged to continue to fight for the legislation.

The new initiative could help expose American credit unions to best practices in biometrics, payments and monitoring collateral from their counterparts in Africa, Asia and beyond.

As Metro Bank’s problems mount, calls for Hill’s ouster as chairman are getting louder.

As evidenced by a Senate hearing, Republican and Democratic lawmakers still live in alternative universes when it comes to financial regulatory policy.

Under the Treasury Department's Financial Agent Mentor-Protégé program, JPMorgan Chase is advising two black-owned banks on working with the agency in ways that could boost their fee income.

The Italian family that founded a bank in the 14^th century and pioneered branches and letters of credit is now setting up a tech-forward, crypto-friendly disruptor in the United States.

Ask 453 bankers their forecasts on loan demand and the economy, or their feelings about the BB&T-SunTrust merger, pot banking as well as other hot issues, and a clear picture emerges. Promontory Interfinancial Network recently did just that, and here our five takeaways from the results.

The New York bank says it acted appropriately in withholding the collateral on a loan to a developer that First Foundation Bank later refinanced. First Foundation’s CEO begs to differ.

The Nashville, Tenn., company hired Tim Schools from Highlands Bancshares to succeed founding CEO Claire Tucker.

The new capital will allow the Austin bank to increase its lending limit.

Intense competition for information technology pros is forcing community banks to recruit from outside the financial industry.

Digit's savings app, relying on JPMorgan Chase's new real-time payments service, will offer customers an instant withdrawals feature that uses savings as a cushion against checking overdraws.

The forces reshaping small-business lending are also leading to “a moment of reckoning” for small banks, says former SBA head Karen Mills.

The Illinois company will gain six offices after it buys Investors' Security Trust.

New legislation in Iowa that allows banks and credit unions to use electronic notaries could help local lenders compete with online competitors.

Financial institutions have often criticized the agency’s publication of consumer complaints. But the information provided can offer executives important insights into looming problems that might not yet have come to light.

The Michigan company said the loan — made to a borrower that plans to shut down its reverse mortgage business — has collateral.

Purchase of United Capital Financial would extend the bank’s reach; the bank is raking in online deposits even as it pares back its branch network.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received over a quarter-million complaints in 2018, according to analysis by an advocacy group that urged the agency to maintain public access to its database.

Housing advocates and Democratic lawmakers want to create more protections for tenants of rent-controlled apartments, but they are facing stiff opposition from property owners and the banks that lend to them.