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The National Credit Union Administration announced a series meant to educate credit union board members on the “fundamental” concepts of strategic planning.

WASHINGTON – The House Financial Services Committee will vote on a bill Tuesday that has been touted as a Dodd-Frank alternative and will likely set the marker for financial reform debates in the next Congress.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. would be among banks most impacted in recommendations issued Thursday by U.S. banking agencies that seek an end to merchant banking and a limit on Wall Street's ownership of physical commodities.

Within five years, a dramatic transformation of the mortgage market will force firms to expand product menus beyond mortgages to develop stronger relationships with their customers.

Pacific Continental in Eugene, Ore., has found a key position for an executive from a bank it recently bought.

Colony Bankcorp in Fitzgerald, Ga., has redeemed $3.6 million in perpetual preferred stock associated with the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

A likely sale of CIT Group's aircraft unit (and a whole lot of other stuff) is keeping Ellen Alemany busy, a former Wall Street banker talks about big data as a financial weapon of mass discrimination targeting women and the poor, and First Busey shows how investing in employees pays off. Also, TIAA's Kathie Andrade, Deloitte's Cathy Engelbert and (to spice things up) Victoria Beckham.

A new tool developed by the federal government may put the brakes on certain counterfeit card scams during the holidays, if law enforcement agencies can replicate the results of an initial test.

More and more for-profit banks are getting CDFI status, with many viewing it as a way to better position themselves within the markets they serve.

A rising number of banks are looking to become community development financial institutions, emboldened by low-cost capital and an exemption from the ability-to-repay rule.