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Industry fears that regulators were souring on bank mergers have eased somewhat after the Federal Reserve finally signed off on WSFS Financial’s acquisition of Bryn Mawr Bank and several other deals that had been awaiting the green light.

Before joining TAPCO, Justin Martin was executive vice president and chief operating officer at Verity Credit Union.

The trade group chose Brian Knight to succeed longtime leader Lucy Ito, who announced her retirement earlier this year.

Banks have extra reason to be concerned by the news that a commonly used piece of software could be exploited by hackers.

Capital One Financial agreed to pay $190 million to settle a class action filed against it after a hacker broke into its cloud computing systems and stole their personal information.

Wyoming Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis, one of the crypto industry’s staunchest supporters in Congress, is planning to introduce a comprehensive bill next year that would cover everything from how digital assets are taxed and categorized to consumer protections. 

The buyer, Union Bank of the Philippines, will pay about $904 million for Citi's local credit card, unsecured lending, deposit, brokerage and investment businesses.

There are more than 20,000 Holocaust survivors in the New York City area, and roughly a third of them are said to live in poverty. New York-chartered financial institutions should voluntarily waive transfer and processing charges on payments to reparations recipients, the state’s financial services regulator says.

The mission of the North Carolina company, founded by banks to archive digital images of checks, has evolved over the last 20 years. It is migrating to a public cloud to help it expand beyond check services.

President Biden extended the pause on federal student loan repayments by another three months as the U.S. faces a fresh wave of COVID-19 cases from the omicron variant, removing a near-term threat to millions of Americans’ finances.