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Despite renewed calls from Democrats looking to USPS to offer banking services, policymakers should instead consider reforms that would permit private-sector firms like Walmart and Amazon to offer a wider array of financial products.

Lenders should get a boost from refinances and purchase loans; BB&T and SunTrust Banks’ name choice questioned.

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With millions of Americans struggling with Alzheimer’s and other diseases of the brain, there are ways for credit unions to better serve older members.

India’s government has taken drastic steps to encourage and standardize digital transactions, and those moves appear to be paying off.

New project models and the cloud can serve as an alternative to payment and financial services technology strategies that benefit larger banks more than small institutions, argues Vinay Prabhakar, vice president of product at Volante.

The Clearing House's Real-Time Payments hasn't grown as fast as it would like, but recent small-bank adoption is providing momentum for a network that assumes the Federal Reserve won't start its own real-time service.

Stress tests have come a long way since first unveiled to shore up confidence in banks. But some critics fear that proposals to make the system more efficient would compromise its safety.

Some of the biggest industry moves in May and early June were not executive promotions, but rather departures.

Judging by day one on social media, you’d think the new Truist brand was a flop. But marketing and branding experts say the name has a lot going for it. What matters most will be how the two banks advocate for the name.