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The head of the agency’s fair-lending office cast doubt on a proposed reorganization of her office and raised concerns about blog posts written years ago by the political appointee overseeing the project.

Our 16th annual Most Powerful Women in Banking rankings; why Regions did away with teller jobs; small banks lagging in deposit share; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Renaud Laplanche agreed to pay $200,000 and accept a ban from the securities industry to settle a long-running SEC probe. A LendingClub subsidiary and the firm's former CFO, Carrie Dolan, were also fined.

Perseverance and commitment are two requirements to get more minority bankers into senior leadership positions.

AI-powered assistants will change the customer experience for the better, but first they must achieve a more human level of service, executives said during a discussion at Finovate.

Republicans are calling on the central bank to relieve all banks with less than $250 billion of assets from enhanced supervision that was established after the crisis.

At least six Trump administration picks to fill financial posts are still pending, but the bitterly partisan divide over Judge Brett Kavanaugh has taken up most of the energy in Congress.

In September, the National Credit Union Administration barred five people from the industry, including one individual who was accused of working to embezzle more than $1 million.

The Federal Housing Administration is mandating that lenders originating new reverse mortgages offer a second property appraisal in certain cases.

State regulators are planning to sue the agency over its special-purpose charter, but the charter would be an important step forward for the regulatory system.

Major banks including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase must face allegations that they conspired to prevent the "antiquated" stock loan market from evolving into a transparent electronic exchange.

Watt hearing suggests IG lessened her oversight; those who invest in a publicly traded bitcoin mining company can expect volatility.

A big investment in data and analytics is paying off for KeyCorp, says Chief Information Officer Amy Brady.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued new capital requirements for private mortgage insurers that will create big swings in carriers' asset reserves.

Entry of Alipay and WeChat Pay into the U.S. market will spur banks to innovate, according to Sarabjit "Ruby" Walia, executive vice president and head of digital retail banking and wealth management at HSBC

Wells Fargo has numerous mobile banking and card account apps in the works, including Control Tower and Greenhouse, and those will inform its Pay with Wells Fargo project, according to Beverly Anderson, the bank's executive vice president of cards and retail services.

In a surreal echo of the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt and an employee he is accused of harassing, Simone Grimes, testified before a House panel about the allegations.

By using the app, which will go live Monday in a pilot program, customers can point their phone at a vehicle and get an augmented reality overlay that provides all its critical info: the make, model and year of the car, as well as its price range and other information.

Few small businesses in Puerto Rico applied for credit to finance recovery from hurricane damage. The reasons are instructive for financial institutions’ response to disaster recovery, the New York Fed says.

An all-virtual future remains far off, as conversational programs still aren’t capturing the nuance of speech and chatbots have disappointed many customers.