Activehours, a direct-to-consumer startup that lets hourly wage earners name their paydays, announced it has raised $22 million of funding.

Scholarships, new facilities, hashtag competitions and more.

F.N.B., Iberiabank and Simmons First are among the banks entering new regions. A growing need for scale and increased use of technology are among the reasons for their aggressive moves.

Eastern Bank in Boston has hired a former Citi Cards executive to oversee its consumer-lending business.

Dave Martin, founder of BankMechanics, shares his insights on sales culture, performance incentives, motivating employees to think about the long term, the future of branches, why in-store locations are harder to run than you think, and more.

New Frontier Bancshares in St. Charles, Mo., has hired the leader of another local bank as its new CEO.

Wayne Savings Bancshares in Wooster, Ohio, is facing pressure to sell itself just weeks after its CEO resigned.

The burden of paying off student loans is increasingly falling on parents and grandparents, and a new report from the CFPB finds that these older borrowers are having a tough time making payments.

Joseph Campanelli has run large publicly traded companies such as Sovereign Bancorp and Flagstar, but he seems more energized after agreeing to become CEO of Needham Bank, a depositor-owned mutual in Massachusetts.

Cardtronics has completed its acquisition of Canadian ATM operator DirectCash Payments.

A little more than two years after Community National Bank in Great Neck, N.Y., agreed to sell itself, Stuart H. Lubow, its former chairman and CEO, has jumped back into banking.

Regulators here made strides to encourage innovation in 2016, while Brexit cast doubt on the London fintech boom. Yet the cross-Atlantic payments battle is just beginning.

A little more than two years after Community National Bank in Great Neck, N.Y., agreed to sell itself, Stuart H. Lubow, its former chairman and CEO, has jumped back into banking.

American Express has prevailed in its latest round of legal sparring with the Justice Department.

When Diebold wrapped up its $1.8 billion Wincor Nixdorf acquisition last August, there was one asterisk on the deal: The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)—which this week threw a flag on Mastercard’s proposed acquisition of VocaLink—wanted to explore whether the ATM network giants’ merger stifled local competition.

For years, there's been a lot of talk about personal information as an unalloyed asset. But by now it should be clear that the more information a company has about its customers, the bigger a target it is for hackers.

Weakness in the energy sector and a surge in new construction are pushing up vacancy rates at offices and hotels, leading to a spike in delinquencies on loans tied to them. The safer bet, bankers say, is lending on industrial properties.

Guaranty Bancorp in Denver has recruited one of its former executives to come back, this time as a director.

The lending arm of U.S. Department of Agriculture guaranteed 3,439 single-family construction loans in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017, which ended Dec. 31, but just nine of those loans involved its new single-close construction to permanent financing option.

The $407 million-asset company said in a press release Thursday that it paid about $4.2 million to redeem roughly 4,400 shares of preferred stock from the Treasury Department, representing a $152,000 discount.