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Chinese tourists visiting Malaysia can now use their Alipay mobile wallet at all 242 Starbucks locations in the country.

Many financial institutions have activated their emergency centers, closed branches and stocked ATMs in advance of landfall.

Republicans are already accusing CFPB Director Richard Cordray of misusing his job as a fundraising platform while many agency allies want him to stay.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen defended post-crisis reforms but allowed that further adjustments may be necessary to reduce adverse effects on small businesses and subprime borrowers.

The Boston company — a division of the Spanish banking giant Banco Santander — announced that the Federal Reserve has terminated a 2014 written agreement barring it from declaring dividends without central bank approval.

Society has accepted central banks’ monopoly over creating and controlling the flow of money, but history and current technological innovations point to alternative approaches.

U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo to use Blend software to speed up mortgage origination processes; Robert Kaplan wants to keep stress tests on big banks.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika is using his short time in office to open a debate about the separation of banking and commerce, which he says is anti-competitive, stifles diversification and may limit regulators' options in times of crisis.

Lenders will not have to report data on open-ended home equity lines of credit in 2018 or 2019 if they originated fewer than 500 HELOCs the preceding year, the bureau said.

With the deadline for a federal-debt-limit renewal nearly a month away, bankers are dreading the prospect of higher funding costs, strained liquidity, weaker commercial loan demand and other ramifications if Washington does not act.

Big banks north of the border are rapidly expanding their U.S. wealth divisions, competing with their stateside peers for higher-income clientele.

The Swiss bank got involved in microfinance in a counterintuitive way: at the behest of its wealthiest clients. Technology has made lending in small rural villages more efficient and profitable.

Beverly Anderson, who had held the job on an interim basis since March, leads a unit that has been roiled by the bank's unauthorized-accounts scandal.

American Express Co. is selling its prepaid card technology to InComm Holdings as the largest U.S. credit-card issuer by purchases continues its shift away from down-market customers.

Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market Inc. won quick U.S. antitrust approval, showing that concerns in Washington about the growing power of technology companies weren’t enough to derail the online retailer’s biggest-ever acquisition.

The idea that the trading ban burdens community banks and prevents them from investing in fintech opportunities is misleading.

The credit card issuer paid $95 million to settle charges it offered inferior terms to customers in American territories; Mitsubishi UFJ wants to become a top 10 U.S. bank.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a proposal Wednesday that would raise the appraisal threshold for CRE loans to $400,000 from $250,000.

As the Federal Reserve retools its supervisory approach to bank boards, some critics fear the changes may go too far.

American Express charged higher interest rates and annual fees to cardholders in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories than in the U.S., the CFPB said Wednesday.