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While proponents of a central bank digital currency tout modernity and financial inclusion, House Financial Services Committee members of both parties fear lending could suffer under a digital dollar and are wary of handing the Federal Reserve even more power.

Kristine Braden, the head of Citigroup's Europe unit, is leaving the U.S. lender amid Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser's comprehensive reorganization of the top management structure to boost returns.

Former Deutsche Bank investment banker Rashawn Russell, who has denied defrauding investors in a cryptocurrency fraud, appears ready to change his mind and plead guilty to fraud charges, court records show.

A movement is afoot to transfer the job of the Federal Home Loan banks to the Federal Reserve. This would be a disaster for small lenders.

Greg Carmichael, the former CEO of Fifth Third, will join the Los Angeles bank as its executive chair. The move comes a few weeks after City National, which is a unit of Royal Bank of Canada, reported a quarterly loss.

The impact on things like servicing rights would raise costs even for lenders that aren't banks, according to Mortgage Bankers Association President and CEO Bob Broeksmit. Others disagree.

Despite an industrywide rough patch, EverBank still sees promise in the niche business line. The Jacksonville, Florida, company has hired a pair of prominent industry experts to lead a new division tasked with serving investment funds.

Carrie Tolstedt, scheduled to be sentenced Friday for her role in the company's phony-accounts scandal, has already paid for her crime and should receive three years probation, her attorneys argue in a sentencing memo. Prosecutors have recommended a year in prison.

A new model rates large banks on their efforts to develop and deploy artificial intelligence technology. 

Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., pressed one witness to say that bank regulators' Basel III endgame proposal, which would raise capital significantly for the largest banks, may have violated the Administrative Procedure Act.