Millions of Americans have trouble accessing low-cost loans because they have thin or problematic credit histories. That could change as fintech innovations and new self-reporting tools give lenders troves of new data.

Ishet Dhar, who spent more than 17 years at Bank of America, will lead the upstate New York bank's efforts to integrate digital services with its branch footprint.

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.

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.

BMO Financial is expanding its efforts to recruit "underleveraged" job candidates among families fleeing war and hunger abroad. Refugees offer businesses diverse skills and have lower turnover rates than typical North American workers.

Through unconscious bias assessments, analysis and industry partnerships, financial institutions are working to meet the diverse needs of current and future talent.

The Pittsburgh-based company is no longer assessing NSF fees to customers whose accounts don't have enough money to cover certain transactions. It is the latest bank to revise portions of its overdraft policy amid a raging debate about the fairness of such charges.

Banks such as FNBO and Ally Financial have taken to the social media channel to appeal to younger customers.

An alternative metric might have led the Federal Reserve to take earlier action against rising prices.

Marianne Lake, the company's co-chief executive officer of consumer and community banking, will serve a one-year term on the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Advisory Council. She represents the New York Fed.

The remittance provider claims the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau worked to ensure it could file the case in a venue that would be more receptive to its claims.

The two major tech firms were targeted in an intricate phishing scheme last week. One fended off the attack; the other was not so fortunate.

Jifiti is among the technology companies that want make it easier for retailers and banks to offer installment lending. The disruption caused by inflation and a hawkish Fed are combining to create an opportunity.

Education in financial literacy instills both know-how and confidence, knowledge most teens lack when transitioning into adulthood.

In another sign that the pandemic-fueled migration to digital transactions is here to stay, Capital One is dropping a mobile-payment incentive for REI credit card customers as it takes over issuance of the Mastercard from U.S. Bank.

Huntington Bancshares has hired Shawn Lough, a veteran Truist Financial banker and West Point graduate, to help guide the sales strategy and goals of its consumer and business banking operation. It also expanded the duties of Digital Director Mark Sheehan to include deposits.

Moving its loan operations beyond its geographic footprint, California's US Metro Bank shot up in our rankings of the best-performing community banks.

More than 250 midsize and large companies that do business with BofA have signed up for its corporate employee banking and investing program, which pulls double duty as a retention tool for the companies and a customer-growth engine for the bank. The initiative is part of a wave of such offerings by regional and large banks.

Chairman and CEO Craig Dwight is counting on the Indiana company's new president, Thomas Prame, to pursue nonbank acquisition targets after it scooped up more than a dozen banks in the past decade.

Tom Speir, a 13-year company veteran, will be in charge of merger and acquisition efforts at the Alabama bank.