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The agency's board, however, delayed action on a contentious proposal to increase a key population threshold for determining fields of membership in metropolitan markets. Bankers remain on alert, however, because the agency has indicated an interest in revisiting the issue.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Tuesday will release results of the banking industry's performance for the third quarter.

California regulators have approved a request from private-equity firm Carpenter & Co. to raise capital for a new state-chartered bank.

The industry deserves credit for rebuilding the Deposit Insurance Fund after the crisis, but victory is far from achieved in preparing agency reserves for the next crisis.

Did men get more than their fair share of the managing director promotions at Goldman Sachs, and what does Barbie have to do with a Fed trailblazer? Also, JPMorgan Chase's Mary Callahan Erdoes isn't getting on the robo-advisory bandwagon and women talk about "systematic sexism" in the journalism and entertainment fields.

Banks and credit card companies could find themselves on the losing end if daily fantasy sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel are deemed to have been running illegal gambling operations in the state of New York.

Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach, Fla., has begun offering a MasterCard debit card for use by U.S. citizens while traveling in Cuba.

Presuming that medium-sized banks that offer hedging products face added interest-rate-risk fears misses the full story.

In an effort to crack down on consumer fraud, the Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it will ban telemarketers from using four payment methods that are frequently abused by scam artists.