Retail & Commercial

The industry needs to establish a clear set of rules and standards so safe and secure financial data access and sharing continues unrestricted.

Credit unions are taking part in all manner of community events and donating time, money and resources to better the lives of the members they serve.

By bending over backward when borrowers trade in an older car for a new one, lenders are said to have embarked down an unsustainable path. The warning, by Moody’s, adds to concerns about credit quality in auto lending.

As multi-factor identification becomes the norm, biometrics can be one or more steps that consumers can easily execute.

The more vocal millennial generation is pushing companies like Bank of America to redefine diversity in the workplace to include more freedom of expression.

Bank3 started as a $12 million-asset institution with a single branch, no online banking and a core system that was obsolete. Now it's much more.

Northwest Bancorp in Spokane said it has agreed to acquire the $131.1 million-asset CenterPointe Community Bank in Hood River, Ore.

Ann Marie Mehlum, who has joined a lending platform called SmartBiz Loans after stints as a community banker and an SBA official, says the combination of fintech and old-fashioned banking could bring back small-business loans under $100,000.

Technology is moving at light speed beyond smartphones. To compete in this environment, banks need to zero in on solving for basic human needs.

Whether helping students or making donations to life-saving research, credit unions won't stop giving back to their communities.