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Treasury secretary says regulators could look to help ease liquidity logjam in money markets; workers will get special bonuses for the third straight year.

U.S. banks are trying to answer a key question about open banking: Can we share our data with payment companies and other fintechs without scrapping our legacy systems? The answer is yes, with an asterisk.

The restriction on how often a borrower’s account is debited was supposed to be relatively straightforward, but one lender is trying to fight that provision.

The credit union regulator is expecting a 1% increase to its already approved 2020 budget, while 2021 could see an almost 4% increase from what the board approved for 2019.

Laurie Stewart, a former credit union CEO and incoming chair of the American Bankers Association, says a string of bank sales to credit unions supports the case that the latter's tax-exempt status should be eliminated.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren stepped up her criticism of some of the largest U.S. corporations and singled out senior-level government officials who accepted jobs at Citibank, Wells Fargo, Facebook and Walmart after working for the federal government.

Congress should get behind the Fed's effort to launch a real-time payments service instead of getting in its way.

The complaint alleges the lead plaintiff was charged two separate fees for the same transaction and she didn't have sufficient funds.

Nobody will be keen to go toe-to-toe with the Fed, which is the financial systems’ paramount regulator and central bank with virtually unlimited resources, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

Beneficial-ownership legislation is within the banking industry’s reach, but the prospect of new regulatory burdens for small businesses is forcing lawmakers to choose sides.