New York

New York's state banking regulator may have set down rigorous guidelines for the Symphony online messaging service. But will the rules actually work, and will other agencies will adopt similar guidance?

New York state's banking regulator reached an agreement with Société Générale to retain records from an online messaging service and issued guidance for other banks in its jurisdiction that plan to use the messaging service.

IDology, an Atlanta provider of fraud-prevention and identity verification, has made an equity investment in the mobile identity authentication provider Payfone.

OnDeck Capital has hired Gary Fearnall as its country manager for Canada.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has appointed a new leader of its bank supervision arm, the bank announced Thursday.

Dime Community Bancshares in Brooklyn, N.Y., has agreed to sell a number of real estate properties for $80 million.

From "too big to fail" to Glass-Steagall, the two leaders of the postcrisis recovery hashed out the economic issues, while pitching Bernanke's new book.

A pair of community banks have lined up funding through separate subordinated-debt agreements with a firm in the Cayman Islands.

Synechron, a consulting firm to the financial services industry, has acquired Crossbridge, a London-based consulting firm.

Lebenthal Holdings, the family-owned wealth management firm run by Alexandra Lebenthal, has hired former Ally Bank chief Barbara Yastine to be co-chief executive.