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Lending, especially in some consumer segments, increased at Bank of America in the first quarter, and CEO Brian Moynihan expects that to continue this year. However, for market watchers skeptical about the industry's growth prospects, BofA's numbers may do little to change their minds.

Gemalto is working with Lebanon-based areeba to test a biometric contactless Visa EMV card in the Middle East that uses a fingerprint to authorize transactions.

New Resource Bank and P2Bi are splitting the risk and revenue associated with asset-based loans.

Gary Shook, who led Middleburg Financial before its sale to Access National, has become president of Blue Ridge's bank.

The world’s biggest maker of smartphones and semiconductors may use the technology behind cryptocurrencies to manage its vast global supply network.

Many large internationally active U.S. banks are facing potentially hefty fines if they fail to comply with Europe's General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect May 25 and gives consumers much more control over how their data is gathered, used and shared.

The addition of a personal finance app rounds out the loan and deposit-account offerings at the online lender Marcus.

A fight between U.K. retailers and credit-card companies that has lasted five years and spawned wildly different court rulings reached a London appeals court Monday that could determine the fates of lawsuits potentially worth billions.

Following a series of high-profile merchant defections, the Plenti multi-merchant rewards program will end on July 10. The program's treatment of merchant exclusivity may have proven too limiting.

Contractor invoices are sent up a long string of approvals and payment is sent back down that long string before they are ultimately paid, writes Will Mitchell, co-founder and CEO of Contract Simply.