Retail & Commercial

Banks have waited eagerly for years for interest rates to rise. Higher rates should lead to better profits for those banks that are well positioned. Others that got impatient and reached for yield with risky investments could be in a world of hurt.

The financial services company Santander's subprime auto lending business is under investigation by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's office over concerns it may have been engaged in predatory lending practices.

Faster lending, mobile app enhancements and seamless channel hopping are all priorities top bank tech executives have for the new year.

Visa and MasterCard halted services in Crimea after a new round of U.S. sanctions, according to multiple reports.

Jack Kopnisky of Sterling Bancorp in New York, which completed a major acquisition last year and has another in the works, is close to reaching his goal of creating a top earner. That effort, and the risks associated with it, make Kopnisky one of American Banker’s five community bankers to watch in 2015.

With Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reserves erasing crisis-era losses, the agency is staring down a critical decision on how to implement a congressionally required increase in the insurance fund.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.'s main lending arm agreed to buy Citigroup Inc. (C)'s Japanese consumer-banking business to expand services for wealthy individuals in the country.

A Canadian startup says it will enable customers to swap their holdings between gold bullion and bitcoins, and it plans an initial public offering next year.

Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) was ordered to face a lawsuit by New York's attorney general accusing the bank of fraud in sales of mortgage-backed securities before the recession.

A data broker operation sold the sensitive personal information of hundreds of thousands of consumers to scammers who allegedly debited millions from their accounts, the Federal Trade Commission charged in a complaint.