Retail & Commercial

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors recently challenged college students to examine how community banks survived the financial crisis, and the contest highlighted innovative strategies used by Main Street banks such as Bank of American Fork in Utah.

Blockchain technology can be used to help financial-services institutions accomplish their most important goal — improving customer service, Blythe Masters said Tuesday.

There is no reason a bank should be able to issue a loan and enjoy one set of rules while a marketplace lender, essentially issuing the same loan, must deal with a morass of conflicting state standards.

Some Democratic lawmakers want to help consumers fight back against creditors. The Consumer Reporting Fairness Act, introduced by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, would make it easier to fix inaccurate credit reports.

Professional race car driver Scott Tucker is working on settling a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing him of involvement in a payday lending scheme.

The House Financial Services Committee is meeting Tuesday to begin voting on several bills that are part of ABA’s Agenda for America’s Hometown Banks.

Commerce Bancshares Kansas City, Mo., has found its customers want to save the planet, but don't want to put in too much effort, so the issuer partnered with Sustain:Green for cards that offset carbon emissions.

Fair-value accounting and merger costs took big bites out of Western Alliance Bancorp. in Phoenix last quarter.