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This could be the second year in a row that the market for U.S. bank preferred shares has shrunk, something that hasn't happened since the lenders were replacing obsolete capital after the global financial crisis.

Following deadly flash floods in Texas, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency allowed national banks to close branches for safety.

A pair of surveys released in June indicates that small-business owners have growing confidence, while startup activity and SBA lending are demonstrating continued strength.

A new partnership with Google Cloud will let the Spanish bank offer Gemini to all staff after a successful ChatGPT deployment.

The Federal Reserve has banned a Wyoming bank employee from the banking industry for embezzling more than $30,000 from a charity.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its unemployment report for June, showing that the economy added 147,000 jobs. The report supports the Federal Reserve's patience to cut interest rates.

A Federal Reserve proposal to calculate stress capital buffers would mean that the banking system could be less likely to withstand an economic shock, the Democratic senator said.

The application follows on the heels of Circle and Wise, as crypto and payment companies seek crypto custody approval and direct access to the Federal Reserve payment system.

The credit union regulator, responding to a recent executive order, has established strict new standards for prosecuting financial crimes. Regulators are now supposed to make criminal referrals only in cases where putative defendants appear to have known they were breaking the law.

Michael Gibson, director of the Federal Reserve's supervision and regulation division, has accepted the agency's voluntary resignation offer and plans to leave this month after more than three decades at the central bank.

Three bank trade associations recommended phasing out paper checks to reduce government payment fraud in a joint statement submitted to the U.S. Treasury.

The all-cash transaction will make the enlarged company the U.K.'s third-largest lender by some measures.

A U.K. judicial body says the card networks have breached competition laws, while Belgian regulators are examining Wordline for potential anti-money-laundering violations.

After passing the Federal Reserve's stress tests with high marks, large banks announced dividend increases. In some cases, they also said the Fed had conceded that certain prior calculations needed to be revised.

A team of ex-First Republic private bankers hopes to serve entrepreneurs who once worked with Silicon Valley Bank.

Starting at 4:30 p.m., the 22 large banks that were stress-tested by the Fed can release information about their plans for dividend increases and share repurchases.

More than 5,000 rent-stabilized New York City apartments are facing a funding crunch after a federal judge denied a request to tap the income of its major lender, Flagstar Bank.

As banks consider their strategies, other big names are also considering a role for digital assets.

The new trade levies are changing the way businesses import and export goods and how they finance their transactions. HSBC's Marissa Adams, Europe and Americas Regional Head of Global Trade Solutions, discusses what's next.

It's early, but financial institutions are getting ready to issue the digital asset.