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Summit Credit Union in Madison, Wis., has filed what's believed to be the first lawsuit by a financial institution in connection with the massive data breach.

Delinquency rate holds steady, number of credit unions drops again.

Nominated last week as FHA commissioner, Brian Montgomery would lead an agency with a much better delinquency rate, but face new challenges.

In a July order, the FDIC fined a former Oklahoma banker $125,000 and banned him from banking, prompting questions by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., over whether he is fit to serve as a top adviser at the EPA.

The San Francisco bank has pulled in 10,000 new households with loan products geared toward young professionals.

The grocery chain is speeding payments to counter grocery innovations from Amazon and Walmart.

First Green Bank in Florida started researching the business after its chairman saw how medical marijuana had helped his wife cope with a severe injury. The bank is now turning a profit a year after adding its first pot-related client -- and there could be lessons there for credit unions.

CB Bank will distribute contactless Mastercard credit cards to consumers and work with local merchants to upgrade point of sale technology.

The hearings before the Senate Banking Committee have high stakes for both companies, as lawmakers are expected to ask the CEOs whether they should be fired.

Data breaches and payment hacks require not only tech measures, but crisis management. Had Equifax gotten out in front of the story, particularly during the slow news period of August, it would have earned kudos and perhaps mitigated some of the public scrutiny.

The Florida bank started researching the business after Ken LaRoe, its chairman, saw how medical marijuana had helped his wife cope with a severe injury. First Green is now turning a profit on this business a year after adding its first pot-related client.

With the explosion of data, and rapid advances in technology, we’re reaching a point where any company can take down the barriers to frictionless payments, writes Jason Tan, CEO of Sift Science.

Did hackers access the credit bureau's computers two months earlier than the company first thought?; the Fed's decision to start unwinding its balance sheet should raise rates and boost bank profits.

Historically, the industry has placed much greater emphasis on preventing fraud at the point of transaction without doing enough to stop fraudulent account openings, writes Melissa Townsley, co-founder and CEO of GIACT systems.

Consumers and merchants in a digital ecosystem are changing the way people interact with each other and machines, changing payments and requiring an updated approach to security, according to Mastercard.

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal would limit how much Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data is released to the public in an effort to protect consumer privacy.

The Cincinnati bank says its investment unit is taking an equity stake in NRT Sightline to provide a wide range of banking and payments services to casino operators.

Citigroup plans to purchase or produce all of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, the company said during Climate Week New York.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wells Fargo’s treatment of customers was “egregious and unacceptable," hinting that more regulatory action was likely.

Equifax's data breach may be the most serious, given that it covered 143 million consumers and involved reams of confidential information, but it wasn't the largest. Following are the biggest to date.