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Midterm elections are just eight days away and credit unions are making efforts to help get out the vote. Meanwhile, one Virginia-based CU is back in court over alleged ADA violations.

The bank, one of the few that do business with digital currency exchanges like Coinbase, has developed methods for monitoring all customers’ digital currency purchases.

What keeps execs up at night in the payments, retail and banking industries? Quite a lot, including disruption from tech giants and competition from foreign rivals.

Taxi medallion loans are going nowhere fast, but loans to drivers for ride-hailing services like Uber could help replace some of those losses on credit union lending portfolios.

Despite improvements in the proportion of consumers without a bank account, there is still work to do to bring more Americans into the banking system, argues FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams.

Christian Sewing calls out the German bank's senior managers for using rumors of a merger with Commerzbank to excuse poor performance; banks in China begin using smartphones to pick up on lie-detecting facial tics.

The housing finance agency, which is increasingly at the forefront of reform discussions, has been without a permanent chief for almost two years.

Wells Fargo puts two top execs on leave as scandal's reach grows; regional banks freed from SIFI label lobbying regulators hard for more relief; FDIC to launch innovation office to help banks compete with fintechs; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Personal loans are "tricky to underwrite" because consumer credit scores are high at the time of origination and then drift downward, says Roger Hochschild, who recently took over as the head of Discover Financial Services.

Petrol, Slovenia’s leading gas station operator, has partnered with Wirecard and Mastercard, enabling users of Petrol’s MBills mobile wallet to add a prepaid Mastercard to their accounts.

The agency wants to change underwriting requirements in the regulation that lenders say will put them out of business, and give companies a break on the compliance deadline.

Bank of America said Terry Laughlin, vice chairman and head of global wealth and investment management, has died. He was 63.

The bank saw value in Ondot Systems’ ability to empower customer analytics in card controls.

Sarah Vega had accepted an offer to lead the four-state credit union league but has chosen instead to stay on as chief of staff to NCUA Chairman Mark McWatters.

Clearly communicating with customers on a powerful engagement platform is enough to increase customer confidence, writes Donika Kraeva, strategic communications manager at Dentacoin.

The central bank should consider rescinding the bank’s “financial holding company” status, which allows it to participate in nonbank activities, given its inability to respond to internal management problems.

Shopify is no stranger to social media — it’s had a partnership with Facebook for three years — and it sees Venmo users' social sharing habits as the perfect means to expand its mobile commerce platform.

Under the Obama administration, the OCC quietly prevented JPMorgan Chase from opening branches in new states as punishment for violating banking rules, according to sources.

The money manager plans a big expansion in Atlanta; agency makes now rare determination that debt-collection practices were “abusive.”

A group of large banks is using its considerable size and influence to build standards for trade finance, including agreements on payments processes, documentation and risk—giving the consortium its own ecosystem to counter the myriad forces in technology and e-commerce that threaten to upend traditional practices.