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It's surprising given the cryptocurrency's volatility, but the New York Yankees, the Houston Rockets, MVB Bank and Vantage Bank are among the companies that have begun letting employees invest some of each paycheck in bitcoin in recent months.

A growing number of Wall Street banks are willing to trade Russian bonds that were once viewed as untouchable.

Emily LeStrange, CFA, CFP®, is the head of Vanguard Personalized Indexing. LeStrange's team is responsible for the strategy, service and distribution of Vanguard's personalized indexing offer for financial advisors.

Prior to her current role, LeStrange was a senior investment director on Vanguard's Manager Oversight and Search team. In this role, she was responsible for the continuous monitoring of a subset of Vanguard's 25 independent active equity investment managers, Vanguard's Equity Index Group and Vanguard's Quantitative Equity Group on behalf of Vanguard's Global Investment Committee and the board of directors. Previously, she held roles in Vanguard's Flagship Services, Investment Management Fintech Strategies and Corporate Strategy groups.

LeStrange earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree in American Studies and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. She is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

An account of the debate at the Federal Reserve's July policy meeting, set to be published after two weeks of whiplash on Wall Street, will probably offer clues as to what would push the central bank to go big with tightening yet again in September.

Payrailz created its own bill payment technology and a peer-to-peer product for smaller banks wary of Zelle, but Jack Henry can scale it faster by absorbing the Connecticut-based fintech.

In Arizent's second annual survey examining how consumers feel about financial services companies, credit unions largely came out on top. Here's what banks can learn.

Fees on overdrawn accounts have become so important to some banks' bottom lines that the industry can't be trusted to police itself.

The Sunshine State has been a hot spot for transactions involving credit unions buying community banks in recent years, and Harvesters Credit Union is furthering this trend with a deal for First National Bank Northwest Florida.

Consumers have numerous choices for which financial services provider they use. An American Banker/Monigle survey of consumers on what drives customer satisfaction ranks the top 50 performers.

The bank plans to shrink its vast mortgage empire, which once churned out one of every three home loans in the U.S. and for a time made the bank the most valuable in the nation.