Next month all U.S. banks and credit unions will be required to process speedier payments on the automated clearing house network. Here is what bankers need to know.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that Wells Fargo had engaged in illegal student loan servicing practices by processing payments to maximize late fees.

Howard Bank in Ellicott City, Md., has recruited a trio of BB&T executives to grow its commercial business.

Diebold Nixdorf’s shiny new corporate moniker is already threatened by a possible deep investigation by U.K. authorities into the company’s possible anti-competitive violations.

Wells Fargo & Co. will pay $3.6 million to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and $410,000 in restitution to settle the regulator's claims over student-loan servicing policies that it says boosted costs for borrowers.

Analytics tools for customer experience are an increasing priority for banks, but technology alone won't change anything. Banks also need to create an internal culture of data science.

The Windy City is littered with small, privately held banks, some of which are looking to sell. Here is an overview of the challenges — and possible solutions — faced by those banks and ones like them in clogged banking markets around the country.

The holding company for Tennessee's FirstBank plans to hold an initial public offering, in order to make more than $65 million in distributions and debt repayments to its chairman.

Despite headwinds working against the mortgage insurance industry, this business could be the catalyst for bringing private capital back to the mortgage market.

U.S. Bancorp is the latest big bank to offer an overdraft-free account. Skeptics are questioning how many Americans are benefiting from these products, and want banks to do more to market them.

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance closed the $21.4 million-asset Woodbury Banking Company on Friday, marking this year's fourth bank failure.

The chairman of First National Bank of Santa Fe has accepted additional duties ahead of the bank's upcoming merger.

With the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency evaluating the possibility of a nationwide charter for certain fintech firms, state regulators are voicing concerns that a charter could cut into their authority.

The longtime chairman and chief executive of Cathay General Bancorp will relinquish his CEO title this fall and the company's bank president is set to succeed him.

Blockchain technology is often suggested as an answer to the financial world's security problems. Banks on the Swift network are being hacked? Put those international wire-transfer instructions on a blockchain. Card-not-present fraud is up? Well then, merchants should just let people pay with bitcoin. Problem solved.

Banking activity clung to a modest level of expansion in July according to the latest reading of American Banker's Index of Banking Activity, edging up from a relatively weak reading a month earlier.

The IBA Composite Index rose to 55.4 in July compared to 54.9 in June. That June reading had been the weakest for the IBA since January.

A noteworthy contributor to the gain came from a rise in the component that tracks real estate conditions across respondents' local markets. That component climbed to a reading of 57.3, up from 54.2 in June, with bankers in the Northeast and West signaling the strongest improvements.

The July survey was not uniformly positive however. Respondents continue to report pressure on pricing for new loan business, and the July survey also saw some falloff in the pace of growth for consumer-loan applications, particularly in the South.

In addition, bankers continue to express frustration with net interest margins, a concern unlikely to abate soon given uncertainty about the Federal Reserve's plans for interest rates over the next few months.

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Eddie Bauer acknowledged that a data breach compromised credit cards used in its 350 stores during the first six and a half months of 2016.

Stakeholders must come together to make sure that artificial intelligence disrupts banking in a manner that incorporates constitutional values and provides responsible banking services to everyone.