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The trend of credit unions buying banks is a lightning rod for controversy in the banking industry. Despite this, such mergers are increasingly common.

Banks are taking hits in the stock market as they use 2024 to restructure balance sheets and inflation slightly increased in November.

Fast-growing innovation is sparking bullish sentiment following a boom-and-bust cycle of the past four years.

2024 brought important issues front and center for bankers, ranging from the rise of artificial intelligence to the fall of banking-as-a-service.

Bankers expected big changes for community banks, digital assets and regulation. Were they correct?

The Buffalo bank recently shelved in-house startup GrowGrade and folded another, Nota, back into the mothership.

This year saw the impact of Donald Trump's return to the White House, the first rate cut from the Federal Reserve in roughly four years and more.

The Federal Open Market Committee cut the fed funds target again in December but signaled fewer cuts in 2025. There was some dissent. The markets are watching to see if the Federal Reserve pauses its easing cycle in January. Brian Rehling, head of global fixed-income strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, recaps and parses the previous day's FOMC meeting and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference.

A roundup of the past year's profiles of senior executive women in banking and finance.

Looking back at the year, this is how they impacted the financial services industry.

From embedded finance to artificial intelligence to real-time processing, there are plenty of sources of competition and opportunity in the new year.

JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, U.S. Bank and Citi had more than $1 billion in combined first-mortgage loans as of Sept. 30.

Fintech lenders often get criticized for high rates or fees on their consumer lending. But there's an argument to be made that the alternatives are worse.

Economists say the U.S. economy is leaving 2024 healthy, with unemployment low, inflation manageable and growth robust. Unknown variables — including the depth and scope of President-elect Donald Trump's immigration and tariff policies — could change that course, but likely not until 2026.

The proposal has similar elements to Republican-led legislation, including a piece of a measure from Vice President-elect JD Vance.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s decision to weigh civil lawsuits against Silicon Valley Bank executives to recover losses to its Deposit Insurance Fund isn't rare in itself, but the bipartisan nature of the move and size of the failed institution suggest a current that isn't changing with the presidential administration.

Managing the CEO's AI could be a new responsibility of support staffers, experts say.

When combined, the top five states have roughly 23.9 million households classified as unbanked according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is considering suing former Silicon Valley Bank executives over risk management decisions, imprudent dividends and billions in losses that fueled a banking crisis in 2023.

Proposals to streamline U.S. banking regulators have resurfaced with the Trump administration's focus on efficiency, but experts and history suggest such changes are unlikely amid political and industry resistance.