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The bank plans to shrink its vast mortgage empire, which once churned out one of every three home loans in the U.S. and for a time made the bank the most valuable in the nation.

Financial institutions have a solid track record of keeping customers for the long haul, but technology firms, fintechs and challenger banks are gaining ground on the incumbents.

BMO Financial is expanding its efforts to recruit "underleveraged" job candidates among families fleeing war and hunger abroad. Refugees offer businesses diverse skills and have lower turnover rates than typical North American workers.

The Pittsburgh-based company is no longer assessing NSF fees to customers whose accounts don't have enough money to cover certain transactions. It is the latest bank to revise portions of its overdraft policy amid a raging debate about the fairness of such charges.

The West Virginia bank said its acquisition of Integrated Financial Holdings in North Carolina would give it SBA and USDA lending teams that have originated more than $1 billion of loans since 2018.

Mastercard is facing pushback from retailers over a new product that allows customers to pay off their purchases in installments. 

Harry Madonna, the Philadelphia bank's founder, has taken back the reins after its most recent CEO, Vernon Hill, said he was forced to resign.

The rating agency has revised the long-term issuer default rating for PacWest Bancorp and its banking subsidiary, Pacific Western Bank, from "BBB" to "BBB-" and says it doesn't expect the bank's common equity Tier 1 ratio to bounce back anytime soon.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said a company doesn't need to experience a data breach for the agency to consider taking action.

Education in financial literacy instills both know-how and confidence, knowledge most teens lack when transitioning into adulthood.