Retail & Commercial

The personal lending boom continues: HSBC's U.S. arm is teaming up with Avant, a closely held online lender, to offer unsecured loans to new and existing customers.

Consumer finance portal will be able to tell customers which loans they’ll qualify for; Marcus unit will soon offer investment services.

Zelle processed 116 million transactions during the third quarter as its payment volume jumped to $32 billion, while Venmo's volume increased 78% to nearly $17 billion.

The Salt Lake City bank said consumer loans rose 7% from a year earlier. That was one of its several quarterly highlights.

Better web access, paid for by banks, could go a long way toward moving the unbanked into the mainstream. It was one of many ideas batted around at a recent a conference on the role fintech can play in promoting financial inclusion.

The firm is disbanding its consumer and commercial banking division and will make the Marcus brand one of the new business offerings that can be sold to its wealth management unit’s expanding roster of clients.

The Federal Housing Administration is making it easier for reverse mortgage servicers to submit insurance claims by expanding the types of supporting documentation it will accept on defaulted loans.

The gap in attitudes and outlook on gender inclusion is wide enough that women and men in financial services often have entirely different takes on gender in the workforce, with men much more likely to have an outsized positive view on progress in gender inclusion.

The bank failed to tell investors that the success of its cross-selling was built on “sales practice misconduct at the bank,” the state attorney general said.

In a move designed to improve access to financial products for consumers with low credit scores and short credit histories, Experian, FICO and Finicity are developing an "UltraFICO" score that lets individuals share checking and savings account data and help lenders better assess risk.