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Tight margins, regulatory clarity and a renewed appetite to expand have made mortgage brokers and the wholesale channel attractive again, at least to the small and medium mortgage lenders.

Wells has helped gun and ammunition companies access $431 million in loans and bonds since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. Other financial firms that are active as bookrunners for gunmakers include Morgan Stanley, TD Securities, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.

The negotiations between Amazon and big banks like JPMorgan Chase and Capital One to offer a checking-account-like product pose significant questions for regulators about the e-commerce giant pushing further into the banking space.

News that Amazon is courting banks to help it offer its own branded checking account raises major questions about which banks could be helped or hurt, who would control the relationship and how Amazon's partner(s) would make money.

As with most of the company's inventions, an Amazon checking account would more deeply embed customers into an Amazon ecosystem that provides an endless flow of data and efficiencies.

Amazon.com Inc. is in talks with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Capital One Financial Corp. about offering the tech giant’s customers a product similar to a checking account.

The Russia probe puts a national spotlight on a Chicago bank exec; CFPB's Mulvaney and Sen. Warren face off (again) while a credit union CEO takes a surprising position on the industry's tax exemption.

The estimated costs of recent digital glitches at BB&T, TD and Wells Fargo are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but contractual and economic realities make it hard for banks to sue vendors for the money or fall back on insurance policies.

Sure, banks are closing more branches than they are opening, but many still view them as important channels for selling products, dispensing advice and gathering deposits. Here's a look at banks large and small that are opening branches (or, in Capital One's case, cafes) in new markets.

The goal of the competition is to increase diversity in the financial technology industry.

JPMorgan Chase just weighed in again on virtual currencies — very discreetly.

Powell says he backs raising the SIFI threshold and easing capital requirements for big banks; Mulvaney says agency will weigh costs of compliance for lenders.

The bank will spend an additional $1.4 billion on technology in 2018 to gain share and boost efficiency, executives said Tuesday. But they were peppered with questions about whether the big investment will yield a big financial return down the road.

One problem is that banks are shifting to online and mobile channels for delivering advice, which is inferior to in-person communications, according to a recent survey conducted by J.D. Power.

Citi will refund $335 million to cardholders whose rates weren’t lowered; customers had trouble with BB&T’s online and phone services and ATMs.

JPMorgan Chase said Friday that its female employees earn 99% of what male employees make globally, but women remain underrepresented at senior levels and it hinted the unadjusted numbers it will report soon in the U.K. will be less flattering.

The bank will allow its customers to apply for car financing online and receive a decision within minutes.

In Zelle’s national advertising campaign, the bank-run P-to-P network spotlights consumers paying a personal trainer, a babysitter and a neighbor. It sets an expectation that Zelle can be used like a credit card, and scammers have figured out how to exploit this trust.

At the U.K. investment bank, women earn 26% less than men and receive bonuses that are 60% lower, according to the lender’s annual report. Overall, it pays women just under half as much as male colleagues.

Process would protect taxpayers from bailing out failed banks; bank plans to raze its midtown Manhattan headquarters and build a 2.5 million sq. ft. edifice on the site.