Retail & Commercial

In a rare move, the credit union regulator is asking the CFPB for exemptions for credit unions from expanded HMDA requirements and unfair and deceptive acts authority.

Scholarships, celebrations and other ways credit unions are giving back to the communities they serve.

The Treasury Department significantly raised an estimate for how much the exemption will cost the government over the next decade, giving bankers some hope that their complaints are finally being heard.

The Spanish bank is opening its APIs to outside developers as Bank of America tests a new data-sharing model with aggregators.

Europe is debating whether to ban screen scraping, a practice that fintechs count on as a last resort. Innovation is at stake.

Bay Area CU launches Business Banking Division to increase, diversify loan portfolio.

Andy Maguire faces a challenge: tasked with upgrading HSBC's digital-banking systems, he has discovered that customers are twice as likely to trust a robot for heart surgery than for picking a savings account.

The $3.2 billion-asset company is making a bigger push into northern Indiana with its agreement to buy Lafayette Community Bancorp.

Regulatory restrictions on market entry can shield banks for only so long from problems like those faced by traditional retailers. But financial institutions can take these steps to stay competitive in the ever-digital world.

The role of branches in consumers' lives may be changing in the digital age, but brick-and-mortar locations are here to stay. To adapt, Citizens Bank has begun a "10-year process" of retrofitting its branch network.