Retail & Commercial

Year to date through Mar. 31, 2020. Dollars in thousands.

Trade groups are still pushing for the industry's priorities, such as temporarily lifting the member business lending cap, as negotiations over the next round of aid continue.

Many will need to ramp up security protocols and reconsider which services require a high-tech versus human touch.

Financial firms could lose access to data that’s critical to their businesses if Congress passes a privacy bill. To change lawmakers’ minds, they need to show how data in the right hands has the power to improve customers’ lives.

The deal is said to be well-suited to the coronavirus era, when in-person transactions have been limited by social distancing and other factors.

Why banks want in on Google checking accounts; readying new tech tools to tackle anticipated rise in delinquencies; more institutions opt to sell PPP loans as heavy lifting nears; and more from this week’s most-read stories.

Cypress Trust Co. has requested deposit insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

As more consumers do business online, some deposits are being unfairly categorized as brokered, inviting burdensome regulatory scrutiny.

The regulator announced in June it would use call report data from before the crisis to calculate bank assessment fees in September, a one-time change.

A handful of credit unions have embarked on co-location strategies, sharing branch space with coffee shops and other businesses, but the social distancing era may force some institutions to rethink those plans.