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The firm will pay $110 million to settle charges it didn’t control traders; hedge fund executive says he was wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct.

Camden Fine, the president of the Independent Community Bankers of America, is due to retire this week. We talk with him about his long career — and his fears for the future of his industry.

Payment system change in the United States has always benefited from a consensus-driven approach that incorporates the views and behaviors of many, financial institutions, payment processors, technology providers, merchants, regulators, consumer advocates and others, writes Michael Bilski, CEO of North American Banking Company.

The investment bank has asked Rob Rooney, an executive who wore multiple hats at the company, to focus full time on the data-oriented strategy he has devised for its wealth management, capital markets and other functions.

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney’s staff is selling the move of agency employees as a cost-cutting measure. Don’t buy it.

The acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director should be investigated for potential Hatch Act violations following his controversial remarks at a banking industry conference, Senate Democrats said Tuesday.

Investments in analytics and a focus on courting midsize businesses have helped regional banks add non-interest-bearing deposits even as they struggle for other types of deposits. Can they keep it up as rates rise?

If Freddie Mac's credit-risk transfer activities continue to grow, mortgage lenders could eventually see a reduction in the guarantee fees they pay to the government-sponsored enterprise, according to CEO Donald Layton.

Judge Dabney Friedrich ruled that the case could not proceed because the OCC has not actually granted the fintech charter to any firm.

American Express has issued a series of deadlines for merchant acquirers in markets outside of the U.S. in an attempt to jolt the global migration.

Such options are being proposed by his top aides as Mulvaney seeks to cut spending at the agency by tens of millions of dollars, according to an internal cost-savings analysis obtained by Bloomberg News. Another budget-trimming idea: making employees share desks.

Fresh off landing JPMorgan Chase as a client, the digital payments firm is counting on tech veterans Yael Zheng and Vinay Pai to help accelerate its growth through additional partnerships with banks and accounting firms.

In the ongoing quest to replace PINs and passwords, Mastercard has introduced a kit enabling consumers to register their own fingerprint on a biometric card at home, bypassing the need to visit a bank.

Overseas firms have been subject to nonpublic versions of the Federal Reserve reviews, but observers say some foreign banks may be tripped up by the public version.

Agencies are examining regulating cybercurrencies not named bitcoin; is Paul Achleitner to blame for the German bank’s problems?

The Treasury secretary has said that he doesn't see changes to the housing finance system happening this year, but he's hopeful something can be done after the elections.

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney told a group of bankers last week that he intends to end public access to complaints, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two other Democrats argue that would be a mistake.

The Birmingham, Ala., company is also looking to bulk up in Atlanta, Houston, Memphis and Knoxville, Tenn.

The group says Mulvaney, who also runs OMB, was not totally forthcoming with the Senate Budget Committee about the foreclosure of a property he owns in South Carolina.

The National Credit Union Administration has banned seven former credit union employees from participating in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution.