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Community banks in the Pacific Northwest and New England completed acquisitions late in the week, and the TIAA-EverBank deal has moved a step closer to reality.

Facebook has disabled so-called ethnic affinity filters from housing, credit and employment advertising following mounting criticism that the practice allowed marketers to discriminate against minorities in violation of fair housing and civil rights laws.

Banks like SunTrust are looking to tech as a way to gain an edge in commercial lending, an area of banking where innovation has long been lacking.

Affirm, which has raised $525 million since launching in 2012, would like to expand its services and begin taking deposits.

Industry forecasts for 2017 mortgage volume assumed a continuation of current housing and economic policies under a Hillary Clinton administration. But with Donald Trump's win, analysts are sorting out what, if any, adjustments are needed to those projections.

Officials of the National Association of Realtors were ecstatic about the Federal Housing Administration's lower owner-resident requirements for condo loans – until they read the fine print.

A community banker on the president-elect's economic advisory council says none of his tax reforms target the mortgage interest deduction.

Banc of California in Irvine has delayed filing its third-quarter 10-Q as it continues to probe purported improper transactions that may have involved directors and senior executives.

Mobile phones are only going to become a bigger part of how banks interact with their customers, so several institutions are looking to enhance that experience. They are focusing on better ways of opening accounts, verifying identities, interacting with customers and offering new services and features. Here are some of the improvements announced this year.

Dover Federal Credit Union, Dover, Del., is joining a growing number of companies across the Blue Hen State to designate special parking spots for veterans of the U.S. military.