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Eric Smith and Michael Morton have been brought on as vice chairs to help build out the Chicago bank's commercial lending arm.

The concept can enable chargeback abuse, and if this “blind-eye” approach continues to dominate, the bad behavior will only get worse, says Chargeback 911's Monica Eaton-Cardone.

Providing simple and rapid claims payouts is a competitive feature in the property and casualty insurance industry. Both Visa and Mastercard see insurance payouts as a use case for their respective card-to-card transfer services, Visa Direct and Mastercard Send.

IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled, older Americans and others.

Liability for missteps by vendors, jurisdictional headaches tied to locations of servers and legacy technology are other potential impediments.

The proposed merger will create a $10 billion-asset bank based in Nashville, Tenn.

The company will pay $29 million for Virginia Bank Bankshares.

For small regionals like Atlantic Union and F.N.B., the biggest opportunity to snag customers will come when the rebranding of BB&T and SunTrust branches begins next year.

As lending slows, new tools could help credit unions expand opportunities to make loans to would-be borrowers they might not otherwise consider.

The Dallas bank’s troubled energy loans reached a nearly two-year high as crude prices plummeted.