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Digital banking executives such as B of A's Michelle Moore love apps like those offered by Pottery Barn and Starbucks for their ability to connect the physical and digital worlds.

The company will pay about $219 million for Diboll State Bancshares.

Steven Mnuchin says financial plan strikes the "right balance" between "burdensome" regulation and protecting taxpayers; online lender seeks Utah charter to take FDIC-guaranteed deposits and offer credit cards.

All states report positive loan growth in regulator's latest Quarterly U.S. Map Review, though membership in more than 20 states is on the decline.

The Utah company has similar arrangements with Staples, GoDaddy and LegalZoom.

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Customers were previously required to provide access to their accounting software, but now they can connect a business bank account instead.

Dan O'Malley, who until very recently ran the fintech incubator at Eastern Bank (and before that was at Capital One), now has a startup called Numerated Growth Technologies and software that he says can process loans in five minutes.

The world needs faster and cheaper international payments, but more than that it needs censorship-resistant ways to transact.

The Treasury Department published its first report on regulatory reform, offering some familiar industry asks alongside some surprising positions.

Too many consumers don't fully understand how the apps work and don’t trust that their data is secure, a new J.D. Power study shows.

The financial institution-owned person-to-person network formally went live Monday, enabling direct transfer of funds across 30 U.S. FIs. There are a lot of questions around whether it can compete with the current kings of P-to-P — Venmo and PayPal — but Zelle may not be aiming to take them head-on just yet.

An alliance between State Department FCU and American Citizens Abroad seeks to lower barriers for how Americans living abroad access their money.

The city has spent more than a decade working with nonprofits and banks to encourage people to open deposit accounts. Outreach and special products have lowered the unbanked rate in San Francisco to 2.1% in 2015 from 5.9% in 2011.

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Wells Fargo, which is expanding its investment banking unit, has hired Mike Mayo to oversee U.S. large-cap bank research.

The brand new low-income credit union will serve downtown Lincoln, Neb., and hopes to provide an alternative to predatory payday lenders.

Financial institutions are understandably concerned about sharing sensitive member data, but a fintech startup with credit union DNA is looking to change that.

Grand openings, anniversaries, benefits and more ways credit unions are giving back to the communities they serve.

The bank-owned person-to-person network formally went live Monday, enabling direct transfer of funds across 30 U.S. financial institutions. There are a lot of questions around whether it can compete with the current kings of P-to-P — Venmo and PayPal — but Zelle may not be aiming to take them head-on just yet.