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The Federal Reserve System is trying to be proactive in these and other high-profile areas, offering educational materials and coaching to bank execs and directors, according to supervision officials at the St. Louis and Richmond Fed banks.

The payment landscape is still very fragmented with local solutions holding their own against global giants and new technologies such as AI and blockchain keeping the payments market very enterprising, writes Eva Murphy Ryan, trade development executive for financial services and technology at Enterprise Ireland New York.

The company agreed to buy Mainland Bank for nearly $20 million in stock.

A growing number of the top lawyers at major financial institutions are women. What’s it going to take to get other departments to follow suit?

Toronto-Dominion Bank wants customers to complete nine out of every 10 routine transactions on their own within three years.

The company’s stock plunges after Sarah Friar’s departure announced; the bank said it unintentionally withheld mortgage discounts from minority borrowers.

Consumers may say they like where they bank, but a survey suggests banks and credit unions lag behind retail brands like Amazon in ease of service and satisfaction.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Google Pay finds a way to reach banks in Germany; Western Union goes after larger payments; U.K. bank lobby pushes fraud recovery tax; Mastercard gets another blockchain patent.

Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of Hyperledger, explains why Hyperledger and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance have joined each other’s organizations. 

While the fintechs that offer merchant loans usually argue they’re lending to the ultra-small businesses that banks don't serve, competitive forces will bring the technology companies deeper into banks’ domain.