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Home equity portfolios have shrunk at banks, but credit unions and nonbank lenders helped fuel the surge in home equity lines last year.

Citizens Community Bancorp in Eau Claire, Wis., has agreed to buy Old Murry Bancorp in Rice Lake, Wis.

The Credit Union National Association has partnered with the Republican and Democratic parties to provide garden spaces at children's hospitals in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

Gary McAlum, USAA's top security executive, discusses what he sees as a false choice between security and convenience, his company's progress in getting users to adopt biometric authentication, and the need for a holistic approach to security.

ACI Worldwide has begun to lend a hand in The Clearing House’s effort to create a real-time payments system in the United States.

As it seeks new business in Europe, PayPal is expected to soon launch a partnership with Vodafone that would allow Android smartphone users to make contactless tap-and-go payments at the point of sale. At the same time, Apple has begun securing bank partnerships for an imminent launch in China, according to reports.

Sussex County Federal Credit Union in Seaford, Del., has provided a $100 patronage dividend to its members who have multiple accounts.

There is concern that a decline in condo pricing could create loan problems similar to those that cropped up before the financial crisis. Bankers in the area, however, believe foreign investors would take the biggest hit.

Lawmakers' move to cap the Federal Reserve's capital surplus to help pay for highway improvements made the central bank one of the least capitalized financial institutions in the country.

In what could be seen as a Nixon-to-China moment, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, a former Goldman Sachs executive and one of the architects of Treasury's bailout of the largest banks, said that breaking up the big banks and turning them into public utilities may be the only way to solve "too big to fail."