Banking

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Senate Democrats urged the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to rescind regulations or guidance that contradict the way Dodd-Frank says the OCC should deal with state consumer protection rules.

The head of U.S. business banking at BMO discussed what small businesses need with American Banker Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger in the Leaders Forum.

The Fed's Basel endgame draft rule would restrict access to capital and credit on Main Street.

A new Cerulli report suggests that one of banks' best opportunities to grow in the coming years is right under their nose, with a client segment they often ignore.

Across the industry, the pace of branch shutdowns slowed this year. Still, large financial institutions continued to trim their physical footprints, with two super-regional banks taking the most aggressive actions.

The Connecticut bank agreed to pay $350 million to acquire Ametros Financial, a custodian and administrator of medical funds from insurance claim settlements. Some analysts see the deal as a signal that Webster does not plan to sell its health savings account business, which has been the subject of recent speculation.

Banks are perfectly willing to comply with a reasonable data collection standard. The problem is that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final rule makes demands far in excess of what the law requires.

The changes include elevating several recently hired executives while eliminating nearly two dozen jobs and trimming annual operating expenses by $6 million.

Commercial-property sales have come under pressure over the past year as borrowing rates soared and values plummeted. Sellers and borrowers have often struggled to agree on pricing, given uncertainty around where values sit today.

While medical debt is not a problem created by the financial services industry, the industry has a critical role to play in addressing it.

The Ohio Democrat is pressuring the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo to proactively provide financial benefits to active-duty service members. Those protections are enshrined in a 2003 law, but many service members do not seek them out.

Retail customers at large banks were a bit more satisfied this year than in 2022, a new J.D. Power study finds. However, more of those same customers are moving cash to — and seeking advice from — wealth management firms and online banks.

The Michigan City company, part of a growing list of banks announcing similar overhauls, aims to sell nearly $400 million of securities and reinvest the proceeds in higher-yielding loans.

The world's largest credit union reported a 5% increase in total loans in the third quarter while lending at the largest banks was almost stagnant. However, the Vienna, Virginia, institution's charge-offs also jumped significantly.

Xu Guojun, a former local branch head at Bank of China, was handed a life sentence over one of the Asian nation's biggest bank frauds.

The industry needs to get to a 4-to-1 ratio of clean energy versus fossil-fuel financing. At the end of last year, it was 0.73 to 1— little changed from 2021.

As innovation in other domains accelerates, the inertia plaguing our international payment systems is a critical bottleneck, stifling U.S. businesses that choose to engage in global commerce.

The five banks that went under in 2023 had nearly $550 billion of assets, the largest total in a single year. Here's a look back at how they unraveled.

Banks in Poland will be the first to start receiving and using the scores, which will allow Ukrainians fleeing their country to obtain credit in their new Polish homes.

The acquisition would deepen Orrstown's presence in its home state and Maryland. In recent years, Codorus Valley Bancorp had faced pressure from an activist investor to consider selling.