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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to retain “limited and tailored government support” after they are released from U.S. control, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a letter to lawmakers.

Wells Fargo & Co. is poised to pay roughly $3 billion to settle federal investigations into a range of consumer abuses that were rampant at the bank for years, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

The bank could announce as early as Friday a deal on charges it wronged customers; the acquisition allows Morgan Stanley to compete in retail banking.

The Treasury Secretary's statements are a sign that government agencies are still in the early stages of understanding this fundamentally new technology.

The Trump administration proposes cutting personnel and other budgetary items at the bureau, while the agency’s director — who controls the purse strings and was hand-picked by the administration — aims to boost spending and hire more employees.

Lawmakers have also criticized the agency's decision to create qualifying standards for farmers and other small businesses.

The credit union regulator's portfolio sale dashed the hopes of a group of New York taxi drivers looking for relief.

The Wall Street giant will inherit some $56 billion of low-cost deposits that will allow it to offer more traditional banking products to its wealth management clients.

Dana Wade would succeed Brian Montgomery, the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Freddie Mac elevated Corley to executive vice president and head of its single-family business, putting her permanently in the role she occupied since last October.

The agency said it wants feedback on changing its ubiquitous logo greeting customers at branches and ATMs to address technological changes, shifting consumer behaviors and bank-nonbank partnerships.

The heads of the two companies explain how the deal came about, what hurdles they face and how they plan to mash up their very different operations.

The money will help moderate- and low-income communities in Detroit and Cleveland.

Under the partnership with Fundation, Fifth Third will offer loans and credit lines up to $100,000 that can be funded in as little as a day.

Fending off these kinds of attacks requires training personnel on a strict process for validating suppliers' banking data during supplier onboarding, especially when receiving any data change requests, says Noicepay's Doug Seaberg.

Akoya has been building a data-sharing network that gives fintechs access to bank account data through application programming interfaces as an alternative to screen scraping. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Capital One are among its new owners.

The all-stock takeover would add E-Trade’s $360 billion of client assets to Morgan Stanley’s $2.7 trillion.

LendingClub and Varo Money are making inroads into the traditional financial system, but other fintechs still face long odds.

$13 billion deal will get Morgan Stanley "ready for prime time"; Ralph Hamers will replace Sergio Ermotti later this year.

Some institutions say the combination of chatbots and social media could entice new borrowers, but burdensome legacy systems may limit their effectiveness.