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CEO John Turner told investors and analysts Wednesday that the merger of BB&T and SunTrust is not putting pressure on Regions to pursue a deal of its own.

Tatiana Clouthier, one of the most powerful lawmakers Mexico, is backing a campaign that's spread jitters through financial markets: make the banks charge less.

The payment marks the fifth consecutive year the Minnesota-based institution has issued a patronage dividend.

Bank of America, MX and Carolina Fintech Hub are training refugees and nontechies to become developers while at the same time showing corporate citizenship.

Soo Line Credit Union would merge into Central Minnesota Credit Union, creating an institution with more than $1.1 billion in assets.

The Washington-based credit union has set aside $1 million to help members with down payments for mortgages.

Figure, the startup headed by Mike Cagney, uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans in as little as five days. It intends to use the newly raised funds to offer other services, including wealth management.

The real value for Apple is in the underlying consumer and spending data. Apple already has a tremendous amount of consumer data via its phones and will gain the ability to pair that with consumer spending, according to Ali Raza, managing principal at Blue Leviathan.

The subscription services industry is a booming market that has drawn-in hundreds of startups, millions of dollars in venture capital and changed many aspects of how people shop.

Bankers should pay attention to a recent case in Wyoming in which regulators have sought to bar two executives for misusing confidential bank information for the benefit of a rival institution.

Hometown, which agreed to buy Millbury Savings Bank, has already completed one acquisition this year and has another pending.

Metro Bank, the lender founded by U.S. entrepreneur Vernon Hill, plunged to a record low after it disclosed that British regulators are probing how it misclassified assets, an incident that prompted a share sale.

The Seattle company has a letter of intent to sell its home loan centers to Homebridge Financial Services.

With U.S. sanctions in place against Venezuela, banks fear compliance violations; exclusion and cyber attacks the biggest concerns of cash-free society.

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The deal marks the first time that the retail giant will enable its customers to use fixed-rate loans, rather than credit cards, for big-ticket purchases in its stores and online.

The root of the credit reporting sector’s problems may be its dominance by a handful of big firms, lawmakers from both parties said at a hearing.

The U.K.’s major banks are urging regulators to allow for greater flexibility in processing high-risk transactions, in a bid to tackle ever-rising levels of financial crime.

It creates an auditable, distributed ledger of transactions that cannot be altered or removed, enabling transactions that are valid, authentic, trustworthy and immutable, according to David Uhryniak, a blockchain services leader at Crowe LLP, and Brian T. Zygmunt, a partner with Crowe LLP.

Ronald Rubin, who was a CFPB enforcement attorney, will head an office overseeing nearly 200 state-chartered banks.