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Morais, who leads the auto lender's consumer and commercial banking divisions, is preparing to leave as Ally Financial conducts a search for its next chief executive officer. She had been seen as a potential candidate to replace outgoing CEO Jeffrey Brown.

Australia plans to put Apple Pay and Google Pay under the same rules that apply to credit cards, NatWest is inviting customers into its branches for a tabletop game about the perils of financial scams and more.

Carol Juel is executive vice president and chief technology and operating officer at Synchrony. She was named one of American Banker's Most Innovative People in Finance for 2026.

Two years after acquiring the installment lender Afterpay, Block, which also owns Square, is seeing the payoff of a strategy that focuses on the sale of specialty items.

Hawzien Gebremedhin has been the diversity, equity and inclusion leader at Plante Moran for two years. Her family immigrated to the United States from the Tigray region of Ethiopia when she was a one-year-old, and she and her sister recently co-founded a nonprofit called Tigray Action Committee that is committed to bringing awareness and action to the Tigray Genocide. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and holds a Diversity & Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University.

Small towns, in which community banks are disappearing, have increasingly little to offer nascent businesses in the way of reliable credit.

Goldman Sachs, which has been trying to jettison its struggling credit card business, now has a potential way out of its partnership with Apple.

The platform will allow banks to share the names and account information of suspected scammers almost in real time. The American Bankers Association is set to test the system with a group of 20 pilot banks early next year.

Synchrony Financial bought Pets Best ahead of a pandemic-driven surge in the pet insurance business. Now it's selling the subsidiary for a $750 million after-tax gain.