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The bank-owned payments network The Clearing House said David Watson, Swift's chief product officer, would succeed Jim Aramanta, who is retiring.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new unit will identify the root causes of recurring violations and find ways to hold companies accountable.

The sleepy Federal Home Loan Bank System is under intense scrutiny as critics push for more oversight and increased affordable housing while supporters say the system works well for member banks.

Bank robberies are becoming a thing of the past in cashless Denmark as the Nordic country recorded its first year of zero holdups in 2022.

Lenders must not use new technology and increased access to credit products as a way to exploit borrowers into overextension.

An declared end to screen scraping, a major hack of a cryptocurrency exchange and banks' plans for bitcoin trading led coverage last year.

Addressing concerns ranging from financial inclusion to the impact of China's digital yuan, central banks are running tests to determine how central bank digital currency transactions will work both domestically and internationally.

At the start of 2022, Biden administration officials were cautious about how to regulate the commingling of cryptocurrencies and traditional finance. By the end of the year, agencies had taken a tougher stance, and the downfall of FTX portended more of the same in 2023.

Return to office vs. remote work, the Great Resignation, rising wages in the face of inflation, workers trying to unionize, the ongoing fight for diversity in hiring and promotions: the year in human resources.

With prodding from their regulators, U.S. banks made some progress on assessing climate risk, but did not move as quickly as activists wanted. At the same time, new federal support for clean energy provided opportunities for lenders.