Retail & Commercial

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking more information about consumers' experience with free access to credit scores.

The planned sale will also include $70 million of loans in southern California.

The company has reapplied to buy Civic Bank more than a year after a regulatory snag forced it to put the deal on ice.

Sponsorships, scholarships and other ways credit unions are giving back to their communities.

Sterling Bancorp in New York is determined to turn Astoria Financial's largely residential operation into a commercial powerhouse. While investors are skeptical, CEO Jack Kopnisky has proven in the past that such an ambitious plan is doable.

When a coder locked $150 million of digital currency stored in Parity digital wallets last week, many bankers probably saw it as another reason to ignore cryptocurrencies. Instead they should recognize the business opportunity (key custody) that the incident presents.

While some community bankers and Washington advocates doubt the likelihood of achieving meaningful regulatory relief in the 115th Congress, the many measures advancing on Capitol Hill leave plenty of room for optimism.

During the past year, many have hoped for action from Washington that would alleviate regulatory burden and stem the rapid pace of consolidation. But in the current political environment, that appears increasingly unlikely.

As the banking industry moves closer to adopting a faster payments system, bank executives have begun to think through the impact it will have on clients and banks themselves.

In mid-2015, several thousand banks registered for dot-bank domains. More than two years later, only a few hundred have converted.