Breaking barriers to education unites the team at Mpower Financing, an international student loan company with employees from more than a dozen countries that is ranked No. 1 on this year's Best Places to Work in Fintech.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau first completed its rules for payday lenders in 2017, but industry litigation has successfully kept the rule from being enforced.

Shares in Signature Bank fell by 29% in early May as cryptocurrency prices plunged. But after the bank’s chairman and outside analysts sent reassuring messages to investors, the New York bank has regained much of the ground it lost.

Prominent Philadelphia appellate attorney Alfred Putnam is charged with convening a special shareholder meeting to fill a vacant seat on the board. CEO Vernon Hill is competing with a four-member faction of the board — and two separate groups of activist investors — for control of the bank.

District attorneys in the Golden State are tangling with Credit One Bank over its debt-collection practices. The bank says the prosecutors have overstepped, but Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta argues that the legal action should continue.

Alex Overstrom will succeed Karen Larrimer, who plans to retire at the end of the year, the Pittsburgh company said.