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From digital lending solutions for U.S. community banks to Sharia-compliant finance in Africa

A glance at the latest ways credit unions are helping humane societies, babies, kids and others in need.

The delinquency rate of Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgages fell to a historic low in the first quarter, fueling more calls for a reduction in the agency's annual premium.

The trend of putting ever-smaller pieces of the same commercial mortgages into multiple securitizations requires investors to be extra careful, and will inevitably make workouts of bad loans more complicated.

Jim Donovan, nominated in March, was one of many Goldman Sachs alums to join the administration.

First Savings Financial in Indiana and Dime Community in New York are keen on making more SBA loans as a way to diversify revenue and generate fees through loan sales.

Several firms are betting they will be able to help banks create platforms that allow customers to design their banking services.

Business-to-business payments technology company Comdata has unveiled a new tool to streamline the process for entering suppliers’ virtual credit card details into their systems.

Nigeria-based United Bank for Africa (UBA) has introduced a Mastercard debit card available via instant-issue at its branches in Cameroon in a new phase of its push to expand debit usage throughout Africa.

The U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator is escalating its inquiry into the role banks play in preventing money-transfer scams where consumers are tricked into sending funds to fraudsters.