Banking

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s bulletin is seen as just one piece of the regulatory puzzle to coax banks into installment lending.

Joel Tucker is the brother of Scott Tucker, who in January was sentenced to 16 years in prison for perpetrating an unrelated payday-loan scheme.

Turnover of chief risk officers is on the rise as CEOs look to add executives whose experience goes far beyond assessing credit risk. Sometimes they are promoting from within, but often they are poaching talent from rival banks.

Chris Furlow, who was a founding staff member at the Department of Homeland Security, is now the president and CEO of the Texas Bankers Association.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s bulletin is seen as just one piece of the regulatory puzzle to coax banks into installment lending.

While there are many reasons consolidation has slowed in the Keystone State over recent years, several factors in play could lead to a resurgence in activity.

A new standard would make financial apps work together the way iPhone apps do. Twelve large banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and RBC, are already using it.

Some industry officials are offering rosy projections about the future of banking, but institutions that follow that logic may find themselves overextended in the next downturn.

Union Bankshares in Virginia sold Shore Premier Finance, a business it inherited from a recent acquisition.

The bank can pay out 40% more than it is expected to earn; the German bank’s stock slide may lead to its removal from a major European bank index.

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Peapack-Gladstone has agreed to buy Lassus Wherley & Associates, which has offices in New Jersey and Florida.

A look at the highlights of CUNA's 2018 ACUC in Boston.

The Oakland company has hired Colleen Atkinson, a former manager at HSBC, to oversee its new professional banking business line.

Commercial real estate is their bread and butter, but many banks are scaling back in this vital loan category. Here’s why.

The Illinois commercial bank gained a new role when it realized it shared the same digital transformation challenges as its customers.

Nelnet’s planned bank would be an online enterprise focused on gathering deposits and making private student loans.

As branches evolve to become more education-oriented, banks are taking their cues from retailers, hotels and other service sectors.

The comptroller of the currency has tiptoed around the issue of discrimination even though he wants to overhaul a key fair-lending law.

Digital Federal Credit Union developed a platform to accelerate fintech development that helps to bake in a valuable partnership between groups that might otherwise be competing with each other.