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Western Union, which last week suspended activities in Greece amid the country's debt crisis, has restarted some of its services.

Credit unions and CUSOs largely panned a recent report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that specifically called on Congress to authorize NCUA to examine credit unions' third-party technology providers, with one notable exception.

A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer who took the firm's high frequency trading code when he left for another job was exonerated a second time after a judge ruled what he did wasn't a crime.

Moody's managing director Will Black questions whether marketplace lenders, which generally don’t retain credit risk, have enough incentive to maintain the quality of the loans they're facilitating. He also praises the P-to-P firms for publishing detailed loan-level data.

MetLife and its allies are pushing back against the Financial Stability Oversight Council. But it's well worth imposing additional regulatory costs on large nonbanks if doing so helps prevent another crisis.

Premier Financial Bancorp in Huntington, W. Va., has agreed to buy First National Bankshares in Ronceverte, W. Va.

The board of directors at Parkside Credit Union announced that Janet B. Thompson will take over as the $87 million CU's president and CEO, effective July 13.

New Details on Banks' Living Wills; Do Clawbacks Get Results?

The operators of a scheme that allegedly bilked millions of dollars from consumers by trapping them into loans they didn't authorize will be banned from the consumer lending business under settlements with the FTC.

Most merchants are trying to eliminate the barriers between their online and physical storefronts, yet the U.K. retailer John Lewis has put a small but meaningful barrier between these two channels.