Retail & Commercial

General Electric plans to ask early next year for relief from heightened regulatory scrutiny, while its former credit card arm says that it won't be subject to the same stress-testing rules as most banks its size.

The agency's staff is already working on a new regulation that would easing access to capital, an issue that makes bankers very nervous.

BofI Holding in San Diego is poised to end a tumultuous week, after a lawsuit accusing it of lax controls sent investors scurrying.

Citigroup has launched a unit in its global consumer bank dedicated to the development of its mobile banking services and promoted Heather Cox to be its CEO.

Consumer confidence in October remained flat amid concerns about slower growth in the labor market and across the broader economy.

Barclaycard and travel site priceline.com have extended their co-branding agreement, which means consumers can still get a credit card with pitchman William Shatner's face on it.

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday accusing debt-buying giant Portfolio Recovery Associates of abusing U.S. courts by filing collection lawsuits against tens of thousands of consumers based on false affidavits.

Webster Financial in Waterbury, Conn., reported a higher third-quarter profit on growth in deposit and loan fees related to its acquisition of health savings accounts.

Sound growth plans, not quirks of geography, define this year’s class of community bank all-stars.

EMV card technology has fully replaced traditional magnetic stripe cards in virtually all developed countries except the U.S. In these markets, it's proven to be an effective technology to reduce fraud for card-present transactions, forcing fraudsters to migrate to areas that have not adopted a chip-based payment system.