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Maria Vullo, still stuck in limbo as acting superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, is hindered from putting her mark on the agency until she gets confirmed. So a quiet guessing game is going on about how her supervisory philosophy will compare with her predecessor Benjamin Lawsky.

Enterprise Financial Services Corp. in Clayton, Mo., has named a prominent St. Louis private investor and entrepreneur as its next independent chairman.

Square's practice of using its merchant transaction data for risk analysis may seem innovative, but other other agile specialists—including Intuit—are finding ways to use new data streams to limit risk and deliver funds to borrowers.

Loan growth at several Boston banks, including many former mutuals, is higher than the national average. Still, bankers are closely watching for any indication that a bubble is forming.

Nearly a quarter-century before his wife was on the verge of winning a presidential nomination, then-Democratic candidate Bill Clinton was seen as supporting "true nationwide banking," though some worried he would also expand the Community Reinvestment Act.

Counterfeit card fraud is finally on the way down as EMV creeps into the U.S. marketplace, but card not present (CNP) fraud through online channels is skyrocketing. It's too soon, however, to blame the EMV shift.

SAN DIEGO — It's easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day grind of running a credit union and, in the process, lose sight of the soft skills that are just as important to success: creativity, empathy and not having to make a choice between doing good and making a living. But those soft skills took center stage at CO-OP Financial Services' THINK 16 conference here.

The finance industry pushed back against a proposal by the CFPB that would ban arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, saying it will pave the way for a flurry of class action lawsuits and result in higher prices for products and services.

Banking is often seen as a quintessentially modern institution. But financial practices are deeply rooted in the medieval period.

Square Inc. shares fell as much as 20 percent on concerns about financing for its small-business customer-loan program, a service that had been viewed as a growth area for the digital-payments company.