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It would encourage tighter underwriting of commercial mortgages, something the investors say is sorely needed.

Banks are seeing mostly positive or neutral trends in loan demand and broader economic indicators in the first six weeks of 2017 and are upbeat about future prospects, according to the Fed's Beige Book.

Longer loan terms may be compounding losses when cars are repossessed, a portfolio manager says.

Banks have maintained consumers' trust but must do better explaining to them what they signed up for, according to a J.D. Power survey.

The acquisition of Cryptowatch is the most recent in a series of deals struck by Kraken in the last year.

Scheduling time for senior executives to visit branches and work alongside staff is a productive and motivating step for all parties involved.

The embattled bank said that the decision to withhold 2016 bonuses for CEO Tim Sloan and seven other executives was not based on any findings of improper behavior.

The FDIC said banking industry profits rose nearly 5% to $171 billion last year; at the same time, the agency's chairman says higher rates may expose bad loans at smaller banks.

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The $1 billion deal, the second-largest bank acquisition announced this year, will expand Iberiabank's operations in South Florida.

Customers and employees of Opus Bank and Banc of California could bolt to several other Southern California banks amid downsizing, scandal and credit quality issues.

Regulators ought to make it easier for smaller institutions to merge, the CEO of the country's largest said Tuesday.

USAA has granted development rights to some of its patented security technologies to Persistent Systems to create authentication and security-related products.

The bank says it will push the rest of the industry to follow its lead and step up lobbying for policies that increase minority homeownership.

IBM's work with Northern Trust and Hyperledger and Microsoft's alliance with JPMorgan and others show the different approaches the tech giants are taking with the technology.

Amazon.com's cloud-computing service, used by Capital One and other large companies, was beset by "high error rates" on parts of its S3 data-storage system, disrupting many sites and mobile apps.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Wells Fargo made "a huge mistake" in the way it handled the phony-accounts scandal, and he laid the blame more forcefully than ever on former Wells CEO John Stumpf.

Democratic lawmakers in favor of legitimizing marijuana business are not being discouraged by the Trump administration's comments indicating it may pursue a federal crackdown in states where pot is legal.

The largest U.S. bank’s yearslong effort to do more business with midsize commercial firms has progressed in fits and starts but never met expectations. More patience will be required, but executives say the payoff could be sooner rather than later.

Financial services providers and fintech startups in the U.K. will soon have another bank to work with to gain access to the country's payment systems and core banking technology — and potentially save money in doing so.