Banking

The Houston company had been an interested, but selective, acquirer before announcing this year's biggest bank deal.

Marcus unit will start taking deposits in the U.K. next month; the bank uses the technology to complete a trade finance letter of credit for Cargill.

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The investment bank agreed to buy Business Bancshares in St. Louis.

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As more consumer data is shared across banks, fintechs and data aggregators, the industry is asking for regulators to step in with better guidance.

Capitol Federal Financial has mostly relied on mortgages throughout its history. Its acquisition of a commercial lender will change that.

It can be difficult for financial services companies to glean customer insights from the abundance of information they have.

The Tulsa, Okla., company has quietly carved out a niche financing tribal casinos within its footprint, and now it’s ready to take the business into new markets.

The bank is using AI in its chatbot, in trading and other areas. It also has concerns about the potential for bias to creep into the software.

The credit unions are primarily in the eastern half of the country, with assets ranging from $11 million to nearly $7 billion.

This would be the bank’s first foray into credit cards; Wells Fargo says it won’t be able to comply with Fed requirements before next year.

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Mobile has been a boon for Cardlytics, which says more than half of the deals consumers choose now come from the mobile channel.

With the regulatory relief bill set to become law soon, some congressional Republicans are already calling for additional rollbacks to the Dodd-Frank Act. There’s one thing they should keep in mind: Community banks had a hand in the crisis too.

The embattled company said Thursday that the asset cap imposed by the Federal Reserve will likely remain in place through “the first part of 2019.” Is this a sign of further delays to come?

The irony of the explosive growth of mobile P2P is this: As consumers get more comfortable with paying one another through mobile devices, they're thinking of P2P less as a service that one should find within a bank's app.

A new set of principles by Envestnet’s Yodlee, Quovo and Morningstar's ByAllAccounts aims to settle a much-debated issue in data sharing: which party is liable when a hack occurs.

Household debt is higher than ever, and delinquencies in credit cards and unsecured personal loans are edging upward. Bruce Van Saun, chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial, shares his views on the market and the business opportunities there.