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Wall Street executives are taking another crack at bringing staff back to the office. This time, they're hoping it sticks.

In many cases, it's as difficult to move money as it is to move products around the globe. Firms like Rapyd and BNY Mellon are trying to ease concerns that businesses have about automating payments, with a goal of reducing friction in an increasingly complex global economy.

DoorDash, the U.S.’s biggest meal-delivery service, is launching a financing arm to offer business loans to restaurants on its app.

Taavet Hinrikus turned his startup into the one of the world’s biggest digital-payment firms, giving returns of about 35,000% to early investors including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures.

Large and regional banks are not only slashing overdraft fees, they’re introducing small-dollar loans to help customers cope with income shortfalls. The policy changes made recently by just five banks could save consumers as much as $2 billion a year, according to a new analysis.

Democrats cited the increasing share of home purchases by Wall Street firms while Republicans pointed to rising conforming loan limits and other measures by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee hearing.

The largest U.S. banks will be tested against a hypothetical massive surge in unemployment and a crash in commercial real estate in the Federal Reserve's annual stress tests, according to scenarios announced Thursday.

Unlike decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether, central bank digital currencies are government-backed digital versions of the local currency.

Pat Toomey, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee said Congress should weigh an overhaul of the U.S. Federal Reserve Regional Bank system and consider consolidating regional banks that are “wandering” into issues such as climate change.

"In many cases, these are fees where there's not even a service provided or where the bank or financial institution doesn't even do any work,” Rohit Chopra of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday in public remarks.