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Law enforcement officials want Visa, Mastercard and American Express to help curtail sales of "ghost guns," which are unregistered mail-order firearms that buyers assemble at home.

The board of directors has hired Kyle Gurzynski to succeed longtime chief executive Patty Preuss, who plans to retire on April 29.

Martin Gruenberg, who became acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. this week, has named a chief of staff, chief operating officer and general counsel. Their predecessors stepped down last week along with former Chair Jelena McWilliams.

The Knoble, a nonprofit, is bringing together bank financial crime experts, law enforcement officers and the tech company Prove to help identify criminals and their victims in Los Angeles.

The Swedish fintech's funding model is likely to be threatened by higher interest rates in the U.S. and Europe.

The country that gets it right first will see rapid business and job creation, attract the world’s best and brightest minds and set the standard other nations will follow.

With their costs soaring, farmers may need credit to make ends meet. Bankers see this as a chance to offer more loans, but worry that some borrowers may not be able to make their payments.

The U.K. fintech sees itself as a competitor to Block and PayPal's Bitcoin-trading operations, with plans to offer Americans banking services such as a savings account in the near future.

There’s no universal case for central-bank digital currencies, according to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who urged policymakers to carefully weigh trade-offs as financial innovation enters a new phase.

European regulators are telling the region’s banks to keep a close eye on potential hacking attacks as tensions with Russia rise over Ukraine.

Daily edition for February 09, 2022

The company has agreed to pay at least $3.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated the District of Columbia’s 24% interest rate cap.

The U.S. Treasury Department defeated a blue-state challenge to a rule that exempts buyers of high-interest loans from state interest rate caps.

One group seeks a change in leadership, the other a sale of the Philadelphia community bank, which is led by Vernon Hill. Both are ratcheting up their campaigns against the board.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is adding child day care and elder care as eligible expenses for employees’ wellness accounts as lenders battle for talent and try to build workforces with greater diversity.

A bipartisan group of House Financial Services Committee members says nonbanks as well as insured depository institutions should be allowed to issue cryptocurrencies pegged to U.S. dollars. That stance is a notable departure from financial regulators' recommendations.

Banks that rank high on a Fintech Similarity Score made the most government-backed small-business loans outside their local area, a study found.

Tap to Pay on iPhone turns any of the tech giant's recent smartphones into a card reader, but since Apple doesn't provide its own merchant services, it stops short of becoming a direct threat to acquirers and payment facilitators.

The U.K. financial technology startup GoCardless raised $312 million in new funding to speed up its expansion in open banking across products and geogrophies.

Borrowing on plastic climbed by $52 billion in the fourth quarter, the New York Fed found, as consumers splurged on holiday shopping and inflation drove up the cost of goods and services. It's the biggest jump in the 22 years the data has been tracked.