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This special report takes a look at the role that activist shareholders — both traditional gadflies and institutional investors — could have on future bank consolidation. The report also includes data showing all the whole bank, failed bank and branch deals that were announced during the first half of 2015

Standard Treasury, the startup that Silicon Valley Bank absorbed this month, is helping create software gateways for the institution's high-tech business clients to customize the way they interact with it.

Following its massive 2013 data breach, Target vowed to accelerate its EMV-chip card migration, but the retailer still just barely made the card networks' deadline.

Fannie Mae is revamping its affordable mortgage program to make it easier for low- and moderate-income families to qualify for low-down-payment loans.

Island FCU names CLO, Maine Savings adds tellers and other promotions, new hires and honors announced.

Carl Chaney, a former co-chief executive of Hancock Holding, has joined JTS Capital Group as vice chairman.

The CFPB is considering suing Navient Corp., the largest student loan company in the U.S., for allegedly cheating borrowers, Navient officials disclosed Monday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Traditional gadflies are again pressing banks to find buyers. They could soon be joined by less vocal investors who still know how to put pressure on executives and directors.

Loans to first-time homeowners and others with low credit scores are a big part of the Federal Housing Administration's growth in purchase mortgages since the agency cut premiums.

U.K.-based grocer Sainsbury's is readying a contactless payment shopping app that allows consumers to pick out items before they even get to the store and confirm payment upon leaving through a "payment zone."