The two most popular Bitcoin services providers, Coinbase and BitPay, are neck-and-neck in signing up merchants to accept digital currency.

The Columbus, Ohio, company started giving away pens in its branches in 2010. Now more than 20 million are in circulation around the world with a few ending up in bizarre places, including the movie Bad Grandpa.

A reporter spent a day trying to cash checks, send money and complete other financial transactions without the use of a bank account. He was surprised by what he saw.

Fidelity Southern (LION) in Atlanta said Thursday that it is buying five branches and roughly $200 million of deposits from CenterState Bank of Florida (CSFL).

Heritage Global Inc. has acquired National Loan Exchange Inc. (NLEX), the largest volume broker of charged-off receivables in the U.S. and Canada.

Alternative lenders provide a necessary service to small business owners—but some loans carry excessive costs. Financial innovation and greater competition can help bring prices down.

BNC Bancorp (BNCN) in High Point, N.C., has agreed to buy Harbor Bank Group in Charleston, S.C.

ACA International has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Buchanan v. Northland Group Inc.

A federal judge has ruled that a Kansas-based payday lending operation intentionally deceived borrowers about the cost of their loans.

It's rare that a regulatory filing would quote the song "Livin' La Vida Loca," but that's just what some Doral investors say the Puerto Rican government is doing in its refusal to restore $230 million of the bank's tax payments.

The company spent years looking in vain for the right deal at the right price before finding TF Financial. The deal adds a healthy bank and a much-needed beachhead in New Jersey, though it also pushes National Penn closer to $10 billion in assets.

Economists and housing experts maintain that the housing crisis is long over, but many Americans beg to differ.

The federal banking agencies on Wednesday began an extensive effort — required by a law passed before the financial crisis — to gather feedback about which rules should be placed under the microscope for potential regulatory relief.

The Armed Forces Benefit Association plans to sell its bank to local management. While insurers have been fleeing the industry due to regulation, the group says it is getting out because its membership's use of the bank is falling and it would rather use the capital to expand its life insurance business.

M&T Bank (MTB) in Buffalo, N.Y., has been named the exclusive banker for its hometown Erie County, which was looking to cut costs.

It's not easy to survive as a single-branch community bank anymore. That's the view of John Essen, president of Community Savings Bank in Bethel, Ohio, which agreed this week to merge with Home Building and Loan Co., a savings and loan in Greenfield, Ohio.

Bank executives see opportunity in selling MSRs and servicing the loans for the buyers.

An appeals court on Wednesday voided a controversial decision in 2011 by New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff, saying he erred in scuttling a $325 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup (NYSE: C).

Xapo says its Bitcoin debit card will start rolling out by the end of June, and it will be accepted anywhere by using the rails of a card network, interchange fees included.