Banking

Technology can be an excellent tool for solving problems, like the confidence gap in salary negotiations, which one startup is addressing. Research shows bots can fully oust millions of full-time workers from their jobs and Christine Duhaime says women in banking will lose if they don't step up to the opportunity. Also, Maureen Sherry, former Goldman banker Shauna Mei and Sam Polk talk about life after Wall Street.

WASHINGTON — The American Bankers Association has fired back at a White House research note that argued the Dodd-Frank Act was not driving community bank consolidation.

Astoria Financial has set a December date for its annual meeting this year—something the bank never expected to do.

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau prepares to finalize its rule on prepaid cards, the agency must clarify that automated overdraft products – a common reason consumers dump their banks – are not allowed on prepaid accounts.

Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach, Fla., has agreed to buy Insignia Bank in Sarasota, Fla.

A long-running dispute between the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the agency's Office of Inspector General over down payment assistance programs is beginning to have an impact on lenders.

Federal financial regulators are incorporating lessons learned from the Swift hacks in their examinations, they told a lawmaker in a joint letter last week.

JPMorgan Chase has recruited an IBM executive to oversee its adoption of cloud services.

Lending Club hired a pair of Wall Street executives to strengthen relationships with investors after many pulled back from buying the loans it arranges online during a tumultuous second quarter.

The fifth-biggest bank in the U.S. strikes a deal with BlackRock's FutureAdvisor to offer automated investing service.

LendingClub wasn’t alone in its suffering during the second quarter.

ClearXchange has access to a majority of the market's online banking accounts as it takes on Venmo, but there's one thing it may not have.

Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., has started a public finance division and hired an executive from Umpqua Bank in Oregon to run it.

With flooding in a big portion of its market, Iberiabank executives detail how technology is helping it stay open for business in a way that could not have happened a decade ago.

Months after advocating for a blockbuster sale of Comerica, Hudson Executive Capital has slashed its stake in the company, as chatter about a potential deal has fizzled. Still, the firm is credited with pushing the struggling regional bank to adopt a surprisingly aggressive turnaround plan.

Union Bankshares in Richmond, Va., said Wednesday that John Asbury, formerly of First National Bank of Santa Fe in New Mexico, will be its next CEO.

R3 CEV, a consortium of several of the largest global banks focused on blockchain, filed its first patent on Tuesday: a distributed ledger platform designed to manage financial agreements between regulated financial institutions.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking to make it easier for Federal Home Loan Banks to accept certain kinds of collateral for advances.

Medallion Financial, trying to diversify beyond its traditional business of financing taxi drivers, plans to issue loans on behalf of web-based lenders. But that new strategy faces some potential pitfalls.

Until recently, credit unions rarely used arbitration clauses, and were praised by consumer advocates for pro-customer practices. But credit unions have learned to embrace the use of arbitration clauses – and now oppose the Consumer Protection Bureau’s plan to rein them in.