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Wall Street and its allies in the House are trying to kill the Consolidated Audit Trail, a supercomputer that will allow regulators to detect market abuses, punish wrongdoers and better understand why markets sometimes crash.

Revolut, the London-based financial technology startup that’s raised more than $86 million in venture capital, said it’s applying for a European banking license to broaden the portfolio of services it offers customers.

Today is the final day to submit photos for CU Journal's annual "A Day in the Life of Credit Unions" photo spread. Here's how you can be a part of it.

The Fed’s new chief bank regulator wants to change “the tenor of supervision”; Ron O’Hanley, who was named president this week, will also take over as CEO by the end of 2018.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika called for reopening the debate over the barrier between banking and commerce, saying there is evidence removing it could benefit small banks.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Visa pushes wearables at the Olympics; U.K. regulators may make it easier for payment crime victims to recovery funds from banks; Stripe invests in Monzo; Coin Hive hits UFC.

As blockchain becomes increasingly popular, heightened levels of data protection and customer awareness of its use become a reality, writes Abhishek Pitti, CEO of Nucleus Vision.

For much of the last decade, credit card companies and issuers have fine-tuned security to the point where if any suspicious activity occurs on a cardholder account, that cardholder will receive an alert. That same sort of transaction and behavioral analytics is starting to come into other business sectors and walks of life.

While the U.S. unemployment rate is low at 4.1%, certain cities are adding jobs at a much-faster clip than others in sectors such as health care, construction and technology. Those markets are providing new opportunities for banks to bring in deposits and make more loans.

Capital One Financial will stop originating mortgage and home-equity loans after competition made it difficult for the businesses to be profitable.