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Despite a slow year overall, banks announced several substantial merger and acquisitions in 2022.

Banks and other lenders revived special-purpose credit programs after racial-equity protests in 2020 prompted them to reexamine their services for historically underserved groups. Now they're taking those initiatives nationwide.

The U.S. should look abroad for innovative solutions to the problem of assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers with little formal credit history.

American Express, LendingClub and Webster Bank are among the financial firms that named new chief information officers and chief technology officers.

The $23 million deal, announced more than a year ago, was terminated following regulatory delays.

The sharpest run-up in rates seen in over three decades slashed mortgage origination volumes, and contributed to a volatile market environment, but had some cyclical benefits for servicing.

Consumer advocates urged a district court to dismiss a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, alleging that discrimination is an "unfair," practice under the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Internal Revenue Service is postponing for a year its requirement for e-commerce platforms, including Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Etsy, to send tax forms to customers who have transactions of more than $600.

Sam Bankman-Fried has tried to suggest he didn't know what was happening at sister firm Alameda Research, which Caroline Ellison ran from Hong Kong while he was in the Bahamas. That casts his role in FTX's collapse as mismanagement rather than fraud. But Gary Wang, who was FTX's co-founder and based in the Bahamas with Bankman-Fried, doesn't fit into that picture.

A consumer financial-health checkup from the CFPB, a Mid Penn M&A deal in Jersey and more in banking news this week.