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Innovation is part of Emily Girsch's daily routine. That's why the chief financial officer at Lincoln Savings Bank in Cedar Falls, Iowa, spends a lot of time thinking about the need to modernize bank regulations for the digital age.

MidSouth had spent the last two years improving credit quality by reducing its exposure to energy credits.

Rising premiums and lengthy earn-back periods have made investors more skeptical than ever about M&A. So the sooner banks are able to convert systems and rebrand, the sooner they'll be able to meet the promised cost-cutting and revenue targets.

The Department of Financial Services has created a statewide financial protection division focused on corporate compliance and consumer issues, in line with steps taken by New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

China's massive card network UnionPay has signed a merchant acquiring agreement with Worldline to bring acceptance of UnionPay cards into 40,000 merchant locations across northwest Europe.

The company, which has invested $3 million in fintech in recent years, said the value of the portfolio is nearing $14 million.

The good times continue to roll for two New York City marshals whose work collecting debts for predatory lenders is making them millionaires.

Val Mindak, who has led Park City Credit Union for a decade, will help advise Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.

The Boston company gained the mortgage platform when it bought First Choice in 2017.

A promotion from U.S. Community Credit Union has helped boost business and increase social media engagement, but some analysts fear this credit union and others may be relying too heavily on post-recession messaging.

The NCUA is letting Union Yes in California raise capital by turning to temporary funding sources, which banks have complained is an example of the regulator's overreach.

The Houston company has already converted the systems and brand from January's acquisition, allowing it to focus more on bringing in business.

The NCUA is letting Union Yes in California raise capital by turning to temporary funding sources, which banks have complained is an example of the regulator's overreach.

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. ended nearly two decades of European Union antitrust scrutiny with a pact that requires them to reduce fees for foreigners shopping in the region.

"If you gathered the U.S.-based senior counsels of the major Chinese banks operating in the United States," said Joseph Loffredo, assistant general manager and chief financial officer at the New York branch of China Merchants Bank, "you'd find one outlier, a lady about half the age of most of the others."

Luis A. Reyes Jr. takes over for the Rev. Arnold O. Pierson, who served as president since the institution opened in June 2016.

Banks from the North and South are converging on the city, spurred by a spike in deposits and employment numbers that trump national averages.

The Indiana credit union agreed to pay $21.3 million in cash for New Bancorp, which was created when its savings bank converted to a stock-owned company in 2015.

After the merger is completed, Cedars-Sinai Federal Credit Union's one branch will be relocated.

In a strategy that other CUs could follow, Concord Federal Credit Union is working with a local nonprofit to provide better access to financial products in central Brooklyn.