The Latest

Simone Grimes had alleged former FHFA Director Mel Watt made inappropriate advances toward her and she was paid less than the man who had previously held her position.

Charles Scharf’s most immediate priorities will be mending fences with regulators and getting the bank out from under a Fed-imposed asset cap. But he also must come up with strategies for spurring revenue growth and reining in expenses.

Visa is leaning more heavily on its Issuers’ Clearinghouse Service to help banks combat the rise of synthetic fraud, which it attributes in part to a security measure adopted by the Social Security Administration years ago.

The three federal banking agencies moved to raise the threshold for residential transactions that require an appraisal from $250,000 to $400,000.

The Fed’s top regulatory official said how agencies adjust their supervisory approach may prove just as important as their rulemaking efforts.

In the payments world, Scharf is best known as the CEO of Visa Inc. from 2012 to 2016, where his strategies for faster payments, fintech partnerships and other key issues may shed light on what he has planned when he becomes CEO of Wells Fargo.

Caught in the middle of a credit-subsidy debate, the program would have shut down on Tuesday without congressional action.

Congress should consider acting quickly or companies could treat the Golden State's new data privacy restrictions as a national standard.

NCUA Chairman Rodney Hood congratulated Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union on reaching a milestone while PSECU raised money through a volleyball tournament.

Ernest Pinner, who co-founded the Florida company in 1999, will become non-executive chairman in January.