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California has a pending law that would hold banks liable for three times the amount of a loss if they had reason to suspect financial exploitation of an older customer and did nothing about it.

The banking giant's sale of the non-agency, third-party portion of its commercial servicing business will boost the buyer's position in the securitized market.

The new president will shape the direction of banking policy, but because financial regulators are more insulated from politics than many other areas, that transition will be gradual.

Shan Hanes, the former leader of Heartland Tri-State Bank, previously pleaded guilty to embezzling tens of millions of dollars in a cryptocurrency scheme that caused the Kansas bank's failure.

Banks are boosting their use of new machine learning to improve security risk, but securing international transactions presents a different set of challenges.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved to ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports, but its analysis relies on a sliver of consumer data from more than a decade ago.

For half a century, the Shadow Open Market Committee has been one of the Federal Reserve's sharpest critics. After years of seeing its public profile wither, the group is eyeing a return to prominence.

The military-focused company, which operates an insurer and a $111.7 billion-asset bank, has tangled with regulators during Wayne Peacock's tenure. He will retire in the first half of 2025.

Four companies are fighting CFPB enforcement actions by claiming the agency cannot be funded by the Federal Reserve, which has not been profitable since 2022. The consumer bureau calls the new legal theory "meritless."

Even as quantum computers still can't break encryption, the banking industry has been preparing for more than a year to start switching to post-quantum cryptography.