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The Iowa Republican followed one term in the Senate with six years as chairman of the credit union regulator.

Corporate breaches facilitated by employees — often accidentally — rose significantly this year, and banks have been particularly hard hit. Here's why.

Jobs will be harder to find for graduates, and there are new underwriting platforms that can better predict students' future income in their chosen field.

Truist Financial Corp. has hired Sal Karakaplan to head its newly formed Enterprise Payments Group, which will be responsible for driving and executing a coordinated strategy across Truist’s various payments businesses.

Credit unions will have their first opportunity to hear from the federal regulator about its recently released budget proposal and also get an update on the agency's diversity self-assessment.

Mastercard says it has been notified the Department of Justice has approved its planned acquisition of data aggregator Finicity, putting the card brand on track to close the deal before the end of the year.

With the increased shift toward digital payments, which has only been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, manual data analysis and threat detection methods have failed to stop the fraudsters, says The ai Corporation's Oliver Tearle.

The $11.6 billion deal is one of the biggest bank deals since the 2008 crisis; card lender profits at risk as people cut spending and repay balances, which is boosting returns on card-backed bonds.

It will take years to fully complete the project, but Mastercard has announced the availability of real-time account-to-account corporate payments for U.S. firms through its Mastercard Track Business Payment Service (BPS), with plans to add cross-border payments next year.

The deal would rank among the biggest bank combinations since the financial crisis, creating a coast-to-coast franchise with about $563 billion of assets and branch presence in 29 of the nation’s 30 largest markets.