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Another look at how credit unions are giving back and making a difference in consumers' lives.

Provident Financial said it increased its allowance against a commercial loan after discovering that the borrower overstated the value of its collateral.

One firm's inability to access bank data shows how fragile fintechs can be; payments processor Square quietly withdraws bank application; turnover of chief risk officers is on the rise; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Banks could shed as much as 20 million square feet of office space over the next five years as they shift many functions to high-tech operations centers in markets with cheaper rents.

Credit unions in the Cornhusker State held the top two spots in a survey from Forbes and Statista, a marketing research firm.

While sellers in urban centers are getting a lot of attention from acquirers, Southern Bancorp in Arkansas shows the upside of pursuing smaller deals in underserved rural markets.

Criminals are stealing more cryptocurrency from exchanges, and that’s driving growth in a cottage industry of services that allows for money laundering of coins.

A new malicious spam campaign that has been targeting Internet users in the U.K. serves as an important example of how banking malware targets business as well as home users.

More than 200,000 jobs were created in June, but the unemployment rate rose to 4.0 percent. Credit union economists, however, have bigger concerns.

International banks are also having to adapt to a raft of regional payment and data regulations that impact their operations in certain territories significantly but in others only negligibly, according to Russell Bennett, chief technology officer of Fraedom.