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Fifth Third, U.S. Bancorp and others aim to design a short-term credit product that would satisfy their various regulators, but exactly how and how quickly they should go about it is murky at this point.

Evans Bancorp in New York believes the business is ill-suited for community banks and that it can draw unwanted attention from regulators.

Amazon has introduced an augmented reality tool, giving customers an easy way to see how an item would look placed on any particular surface using a smartphone camera.

Call-report data on commercial and industrial loans does not fully capture small-business lending by smaller institutions, a recent FDIC survey suggests.

Following the release of the nonbinding statement of policy, regulators still have an important role to play in making sure the industry achieves an effective data-sharing model.

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says he won’t seek reelection next year; CME Group hopes to launch a contract by yearend.

Eight leagues/associations now are part of class action response to massive hack, with two leagues – representing CUs in Nebraska, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming – joining on Halloween.

Since Zelle's earliest days as the clearXchange network, the banks behind the P-to-P platform have promised that it could have a role in the business world. U.S. Bank has begun the next chapter by offering Disbursements via Zelle.

Additional data such as college major enhances the ability to provide credit to thin-file consumers. But could it create other issues?

In a somewhat surprising decision, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling announced his retirement from Congress on Tuesday, but speculation immediately grew that he could fill a regulatory post.

A securities settlement, portfolio asset sales and greater interest among smaller lenders helped Freddie Mac compensate for potential losses from the catastrophic hurricane season.

A GAO determination has effectively nullified a 2013 leveraged lending guidance. But that leaves the future uncertain about what, if anything, regulators will devise to replace it — and how banks should treat such loans in the meantime.

Text analysis holds the promise of improving lenders’ ability to evaluate which borrowers will repay, but it also carries substantial risks.

Political stalemates have convinced many executives that relief will only come when agency leaderships turn over.

Blockchain is a bigger opportunity for business transactions than consumer transactions, according to Mastercard president and CEO Ajay Banga, who is poring over the technology to build use cases for corporate users.

The bank consortium is going directly after the business of its former partner Ripple in the middle of their legal battle over an option for digital currency worth $1 billion.

Big banks have raised deposit rates faster than regionals in order to retain depositors; India’s largest payment app wants to expand.

The bank-powered P-to-P app Zelle officially launched in June with a mostly consistent brand across all of its bank partners, but it still struggles with awareness over PayPal's Venmo, which doesn't share its advantage of living inside banks' mobile apps.

While increasing de novo activity is encouraging, the processes of chartering a bank and applying for deposit insurance are more onerous, lengthy and costly than they need to be.

The new tool tracks both serious and general delinquencies down to a county level and features interactive charts and graphs.