A federal judge found that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau overstated the costs and understated the negative impact of exempting 1,700 financial institutions from reporting Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data.

U.S. banks closed almost 3,000 more branches than they opened last year, but credit unions' branch count crept up in the second quarter despite consumers' heavier reliance on digital channels for account management.

A half-dozen of the largest banks in the country will participate in the Federal Reserve's climate scenario analysis exercise next year. Findings from the program will inform supervision policies on managing climate and transition risks.

Nearly nine out of 10 bankers surveyed by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors ranked the specter of rising deposit costs and narrowing margins as their top concern.

The bank is looking to detect fraud in real time, a capability that it sees as a differentiator for merchants that want to offer installment lending.

Banks pushed for the rule implementing the Corporate Transparency Act that would ease one of their toughest anti-money-laundering burdens.