SVB Financial and Mastercard have accepted six startups for the fifth installment of their accelerator, Commerce.Innovated.

Remember how last year's shutdown of the Small Business Administration's flagship loan-guarantee program prompted Congress to provide more funding? SBA made every penny count in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, backing 64,073 loans for a record $24.1 billion — a 2% increase.

Without investigations by the Los Angeles Times and city prosecutors, the Wells Fargo account scandal would never have come to light. Where were federal regulators?

To help ensure that women are included in digital banking's future, we must reach girls and young women at an earlier age than their college years to equip them with the IT tools they need to succeed in tomorrow's workforce.

It's official: Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment banking titan, now offers consumer loans.

The new CEO has vowed to clean up the sales practices that tarnished the bank's reputation and cost John Stumpf his job. But skeptics from Wall Street to Capitol Hill say Sloan, too, was "culpable" in the phony account-opening scandal and that only an outsider can fix what ails the nation's third-largest bank.

In states with strict rules on small-dollar loans, lenders could see an opening in the language of the CFPB rule to actually hike rates, observers say.

Hingham Institution for Savings in Massachusetts said a double-digit spike in lending contributed to a strong third quarter.

The change at the top of the No. 3 U.S. bank by assets after a snowballing phony-accounts scandal marks the rare case of a major U.S. bank CEO resigning amid accusations of company misconduct. His successor, Tim Sloan, faces a hard road to recovery.

Heightened regulatory scrutiny, stricter credit-quality reviews by buyers themselves, cautiousness over systems conversions and other factors have added about three weeks to deal closings in recent years. There are inherent risks in that trend and ways to minimize them.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Chief Executive Officer Victor Dodig said new federal government housing rules will slow growth in mortgage lending, though he expects the decline to be manageable.

The $4.3 billion-asset parent of Century Bank and Trust Co. said in a press release Tuesday that its net income increased 5.2% in the quarter from a year earlier to $6.4 million, or $1.16 a share.

With its acquisition of the online pricing firm Paribus, Capital One continues a pattern in recent years of acquiring promising fintech startups.

About two-thirds of banks that close branches will lose deposit share in their impacted markets in time. Here's how to prevent customers from leaving your bank.

Subprime borrowers are falling behind on their car loan payments at the highest rate in more than six years, and some bonds backed by these loans are vulnerable to getting downgraded, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Bank holding companies in Alabama and Pennsylvania have changed or plan to change their names to more closely reflect the identities of their banks.

WASHINGTON — Eighteen Republican State Attorneys Generals sent a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week pushing back against the agency's proposal to rein in high-cost small-dollar loans.

The Wells Fargo scandal has given cross-selling a bad name, but experts say that, done right, it is a crucial revenue driver in this era of razor-thin net interest margins. Their advice: Only sell products that customers need and compensate employees for retaining customers, not simply opening accounts.

The ramifications for a U.S. Court of Appeals decision against the CFPB’s constitutionality go far beyond just the agency’s independence, and may have consequences for other federal agencies with similar structures. The ruling may also hamper the CFPB’s powers, including its ability to retroactively apply new rules.

Regions Financial in Birmingham, Ala., has introduced an online consumer lending product that it uses technology developed by Avant.