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As new foreign bank regulations push financial institutions to shed risk-weighted assets, companies like Barclays and RBS are reducing their roles in the mortgage-backed securities market. But reduced competition in this sector is bad for liquidity.

Ashley Madison, an online extramarital dating service that claims to protect users’ privacy and security, has had its customer database compromised.

So-called 'innovation labs' are cropping up all over, but few can boast the kind of real world results that have led to changes to state laws, programs that save CUs countless dollars and help attract new members along the way. But this one can.

Ashley Madison, an online extramarital dating service that claims to protect users' privacy and security, has had its customer database compromised.

ACA International elected new leaders at its annual meeting.

Signature Bank in New York hired a BankUnited executive and four salesmen and underwriters for its new direct commercial-vehicle financing business.

Regulators and Congress can take several key steps to ease community banks' burden, from implementing tiered regulation to requiring less frequent call reports. And they should also remember that banks are innocent until proven guilty.

Morgan Stanley reported profit that beat analysts' estimates as a jump in trading and brokerage fees led to the biggest revenue increase among the six largest U.S. banks. The shares climbed in early trading.

Preferred Bank in Los Angeles has agreed to buy United International Bank in Flushing, N.Y.

PayPal Holdings Inc. made its stock debut with a market value almost 1.4 times that of eBay Inc. as investors bet on bigger returns from the digital payments business than its former parent company struggling with slow growth.