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The coastal city quickly rebounded after being hit by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017.

The proposed merger will create a bank with more than $1 billion in assets.

ECGS urges investors to oust the chairman and three executives; financial companies using AI to help adults manage their elderly parents’ finances.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: PayPal's high on phishing list; San Francisco outlaws no-cash stores; Facebook changes crypto ad policy; Ransomware hits Baltimore.

The presidential contender’s plan to eliminate more than $1 trillion in student loan debt could have far-reaching implications for credit unions

A crypto-based payments system from Facebook would create more competition and pressure legacy companies to up their game, says Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Google has made significant headway against merchant reluctance and branding confusion on its path to offer mobile payments. But an influx of contactless cards in the U.S. threatens another setback to mobile wallet adoption.

At first the Financial Stability Oversight Council wanted to target individual nonbanks that pose a risk to the economy. Now it wants to target activities rather than firms. Is that a good idea or a political ploy?

A sharp disagreement between foreign and U.S. regulators is emerging on how far banking supervisors should go in asking financial institutions to stress test their loan and investment portfolios for any risks associated with climate change.

Consolidation activity was ho-hum for most of April before a burst of transactions — and notable ones at that — were announced in the month's final week.