In the second lawsuit of its kind, more than a dozen of the world's largest banks are accused of price fixing on roughly $486 billion of bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The bill by Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and John Kennedy, R-La., would block banks and credit unions with over $10 billion of assets from refusing service to "customers that may not share the same political values."

U.S. banks accounted for nearly 40% of the financing worldwide to such firms, according to a report by Rainforest Action Network.

The bank was fined $25 million for what the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said was an inability to provide the discounts to all who were eligible.

BB&T-SunTrust deal came together with remarkable speed; Citi and Chase take on fintechs at their own game; CECL spells trouble for small banks, consumers; and more from this week’s most-read stories.

A potential succession and a transfer of power in family leadership are among the key recent executive moves in banking.

The upstart lenders have been chipping away at credit cards’ consumer-lending dominance by offering fixed-rate loans with predictable repayment plans. Now the card giants are fighting back.

Is it realistic to think Wells Fargo might get a new female CEO? How one fintech makes women feel welcome, and how another fosters innovation. Plus some of our Most Powerful Women make big moves – two retire, one jumps from BNY Mellon to Amex, one exits a board and another joins one.

JPMorgan's Dimon: Square innovated where we should have; this company simplifies bank switching (and banks pay for it); BB&T-SunTrust deal has Atlanta banks licking their chops; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Tatiana Clouthier, one of the most powerful lawmakers Mexico, is backing a campaign that's spread jitters through financial markets: make the banks charge less.

The bank said in its annual report that anticipated store closings could reduce both new account acquisitions and purchase volume.

The name of John Havens was on a list of 25 men, including New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft, being charged for soliciting, police officials in Jupiter, Fla., said.

Will Howle, head of U.S. retail and mortgage banking, and Alice Milligan, chief digital experience officer, will leave this spring.

The swaps contract was struck before the U.S. stepped up sanctions on the Venezuelan leader's government, but it's due to expire soon, and whether Citi should repossess the gold is a political football.

Mel Watt calls FHFA watchdog “sexist,” after it concludes he’s guilty of sexual harassment. State Street sues the "Fearless Girl" sculptor. Banks big and small face mounting pressure on gender pay gap and board diversity. And another top 40 U.S. bank might get a female CEO.

CEO Corbat says “thousands” of call center jobs may be lost; Barclays shareholder sells all stock in the bank and Deutsche’s biggest slashes its stake.

Flaws in testing may be real source of Wells Fargo's tech failure; BB&T-SunTrust deal throws talent and deposits up for grabs, threatens banking's middle tier; what JPMorgan Chase's JPM Coin means for Ripple and Swift; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Barclays, BMO, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and ING contributed to the online student lender, which last year made over $1 billion in loans.

Arjuna Capital is filing shareholder proposals with 11 financial and tech companies to uncover median gender pay gaps, which it said would determine if more women are concentrated in lower-paying jobs.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Citigroup and a handful of others have pumped more than 100 million contactless credit and debit cards altogether into the U.S. market recently, but it’s a drop in the bucket in the world’s largest card market.