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The chief executive of Klarna Bank has polarized opinion on social media after posting a contact list of former employees recently dismissed by the Swedish company as part of a drive to curb costs.

Increased interest income would boost lending profitability, but only if borrowers are confident enough in the economy to take out loans. And that's just one of the issues hammering banks' shares.

Widespread sharing of financial and other data creates enormous privacy risks for consumers, many of whom have no real understanding of the danger.

Scammers are using age-old tactics like phishing to take advantage of the uncertainty — and panic — stemming from the recent price swings of several prominent digital currencies.

This week in global news, U.K. banks suffer an online and mobile outage, Wordline enters the metaverse, a new cross-border payment option comes to Ukraine, and more.

Tandym, headed by a former Capital One executive, is rolling out a digital private-label credit card program that ties into sellers' loyalty programs. It has $60 million in backing from investors including Google’s AI-focused venture fund Gradient.

The 50 companies that made American Banker’s annual list are being recognized for establishing strong workplace cultures, offering robust benefits packages and giving employees the room to do their jobs well.

Companies on the Best Places to Work in Fintech list offer sabbaticals or generous vacation time, which helps attract young talent and lets veteran employees re-energize.

Breaking barriers to education unites the team at Mpower Financing, an international student loan company with employees from more than a dozen countries that is ranked No. 1 on this year's Best Places to Work in Fintech.

Get your notepad ready: these are the speakers whose insights you’ll want to remember at this year’s event in Austin.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau first completed its rules for payday lenders in 2017, but industry litigation has successfully kept the rule from being enforced.

Shares in Signature Bank fell by 29% in early May as cryptocurrency prices plunged. But after the bank’s chairman and outside analysts sent reassuring messages to investors, the New York bank has regained much of the ground it lost.

Cathy Beardsley, the CEO of Segpay, and Christiaan Brand, a security expert from Google, discuss how to overcome the hurdles that are still in the way of cryptocurrencies being widely used for payments.

Prominent Philadelphia appellate attorney Alfred Putnam is charged with convening a special shareholder meeting to fill a vacant seat on the board. CEO Vernon Hill is competing with a four-member faction of the board — and two separate groups of activist investors — for control of the bank.

District attorneys in the Golden State are tangling with Credit One Bank over its debt-collection practices. The bank says the prosecutors have overstepped, but Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta argues that the legal action should continue.

10 things to know in May: The Credit Union Women’s Leadership Alliance is set to launch its coaching program, U.S. Senate confirms first Black appointee to Federal Reserve, and more.

President Biden used a rare meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to declare that he’s respecting the central bank’s independence — while simultaneously shifting responsibility for taming decades-high inflation ahead of the November midterms.

A career path in financial services doesn't have to be linear, says Walmart's Julia Unger.

Alex Overstrom will succeed Karen Larrimer, who plans to retire at the end of the year, the Pittsburgh company said.

The Australian bank has co-developed a portal to all the knowledge trapped inside multiple virtual assistants throughout the company.