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Daily edition for March 31, 2021.

As the digital transformation journey accelerates the need for more collaborative, agile and tailored solutions between banks and fintechs becomes essential, says MYHSM's John Cragg.

Activist investors are pressuring big banks to further curtail lending to the fossil-fuel industry, undergo so-called racial-equity audits and disclose more about their lobbying practices and financing of nuclear weapons manufacturers.

The two payment brands have found ways to limit currency conversion risk — a key concern among banks and merchants.

In an enforcement action that could have reverberations across the sector, the Fed imposed tough penalties on a pair of Wyoming bankers who took confidential information to their new employer.

Business First Bancshares is counting on its acquisition of Smith Shellnut Wilson to help it offer more advisory services to commercial clients.

Although the Federal Housing Administration's insurance fund is "well above" its legal minimum, HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge said the mortgage agency has no plans to cut prices.

The full Senate could deadlock on Rohit Chopra’s nomination as the Banking Committee did. If that happens, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to cast the decisive vote in his favor.

The banking and credit union industries opposed the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act, but they were largely shut out of a process that moved quickly amid a nationwide reckoning on racial inequality.

Virtual training and orientation, including any licensing needed, will begin in July for the bank’s campus hires, with the aim of having new employees at offices in October, Bank of America said.

The credit union has made a four-year commitment to support the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and Greenwood Rising, a local history center.

Shares of the company advanced after it issued a statement about the bank’s prime-brokerage relationship with the family office.

Bank of America said Tuesday that it would up its initial commitment from $1 billion to $1.25 billion and would increase support in Asian American communities, where violence and incidents of harassment have risen sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As it seeks to disrupt the social media model of capitalizing on user content and data, Canadian technology company Yuser is launching an app that will create and market ways to sell digital works online.

John Janclaes spent more than 15 years at Partners Federal Credit Union but has moved on to help launch a new credit union service organization from Nymbus.

Incumbent banks’ market position is underpinned by strong consumer trust and massive scale, but these historic advantages can no longer be taken for granted, Simon Wilson of Icon Solutions writes.

The drugstore chain will debut a new bank account for customers that will offer rewards tied to its loyalty program.

Thousands of customers have called OceanFirst Bank with a new set of technical questions: How do you download an app? Make a mobile deposit? Load a debit card into Apple Pay? CEO Chris Maher explains how the New Jersey company is handling the shift to digital banking.

Technology is moving forward at a pace that could push real-time payments into new settings in the near future, with several countries already using systems that could become models for the U.S.