First Community Bancshares in Bluefield, Va., has sold four insurance offices.

First Business Financial Services in Madison, Wis., is looking for a new leader for its bank.

The state of Washington halts a plan to update its 15-year-old member business loan rule while the federal regulation undergoes a legal challenge from the Independent Community Bankers of America.

It's time not only to hold banks accountable for their security, but also to provide meaningful regulatory guidance on how to achieve security.

Our FinTech Forward Companies to Watch are helping banks step up their game by offering virtual assistance, better money management tools and other solutions.

There were bound to be growing pains in the friendship between banks and fintech. Bankers plugged into the world of innovation give their advice on overcoming the challenges.

Banks are expected to spend more on technology in the coming year, with the cash earmarked for things like upgrading mobile apps and adding self-service tech in branches.

The once-icy relationship between banks and fintechs thawed quite a bit in the last year. The next step might be for banks to start buying startups.

A new app aims to modernize the automobile financing process by allowing car shoppers to get credit approval on their phones.

First Foundation in Irvine, Calif., has agreed to buy a pair of branches from Pacific Western Bank in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The Federal Trade Commission took a victory lap Tuesday in its fight with race car driver Scott Tucker and his payday lending operation.

Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf may get a third grilling by lawmakers over the fake-accounts scandal that continues to embroil the San Francisco bank.

More than $100 billion in securitized commercial mortgages come due soon, many of them still underwater.

Wells Fargo, the lender grappling with a scandal involving unauthorized customer accounts, had its outlook lowered to negative from stable by Fitch Ratings.

The bank's fake account scandal is further reason to make the results of Wells' 2012 Community Reinvestment Act exam public.

The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that 19 private-sector proposals are now under review by nearly 500 members of two separate task forces, one of which was established to chart a path toward a faster payment system, and the other focused on payment system security.

Information security, internal controls, workforce planning and building renovations are priorities that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should quickly address, its inspector general said last week.

Medallion Bank in New York has sold its asset-based lending division to an unnamed buyer.

Royal Bank of Scotland will soon launch a customer pilot of Luvo, a chat bot taught to answer customers' questions in near-real time and route more complex requests to advisers using IBM Watson Conversation.

Mission Asset Fund has helped people build their credit by formalizing the informality of lending circles. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently named Mission's CEO José A. Quiñonez one of its 2016 Fellows.