Banking

Services are cropping up that help banks analyze bitcoin transactions for signs of criminal behavior such as money laundering. But such services come with their own risks.

The prepaid card giant Green Dot is getting into the matchmaking business.

WASHINGTON — Community banks are poised to score a big win after details about negotiations over a major highway spending bill emerged Tuesday.

The Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled that Capital One Bank (USA) didn’t violate an Iowa debt collection law by pursuing debt without registering with the state as a debt collector.

PRA Group announced Monday that Michelle Link, the company’s chief human resources officer, has been named to Human Resource Executive magazine’s 2015 HR Honor Roll.

The management team of R3 CEV thinks blockchain is going to revolutionize the financial services industry.

Premara Financial in Charlotte, N.C., has raised $8.5 million in a stock offering and plans to exit the Small Business Lending Fund program.

JPMorgan Chase plans a venture with a peer-to-peer lender to small businesses, Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said.

A report from The Commonwealth Fund indicates consumers are reporting problems affording healthcare as a result of high premiums while the perception of the difficulty also influences care decisions.

Achieva Credit Union in Dunedin, Fla., has received regulatory approval to buy Calusa Bank in Punta Gorda, Fla.

Kal Raman has resigned as president and chief executive of Xome, the digital platform of the nonbank mortgage servicer Nationstar Mortgage Holdings.

It sounded like a sales pitch from the bubble years - "Subprime: The New Normal." But an account executive at the Atlanta mortgage lender Angel Oak Home Loans sought to draw a clear distinction between subprime products pitched today and the infamous stated-income loans of yore.

Bank of Montreal said fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 13%, led by capital markets and U.S. banking. The lender raised its dividend 2.4% to 84 Canadian cents a share.

Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley became the latest big banks Monday to promise to cut their support for the coal industry in the name of reducing the pollution blamed for global warming.

M&A has taken off in 2015, especially in five states that account for more than a fifth of all activity. Here are the states with the most sellers, based on data compiled by KBW through Nov. 30.

Anticipation of rising interest rates has stirred more talk among mortgage lenders about the need to originate loans to borrowers with low credit scores. Mortgage lenders like Angel Oak Home Loans in Atlanta argue there is a distinction between the subprime products being pitched today and the infamous stated-income loans of yore.

The Portland, Ore., company is pitching its technology as a way for banks to enter digital lending without sacrificing their relationships with customers.

The $9.8 billion-asset Great Western said in a press release Monday that it will pay about $140 million, or $19.70 a share, in cash and stock for the $1.2 billion-asset parent of Home Federal Bank.

Did your community bank successfully complete a tech initiative this year? We would like to hear about it for possible inclusion in our upcoming special report on the Top Community Bank IT Projects.

R3 CEV thinks it is better positioned than other blockchain startups to provide products that banks will use. Why? It is pairing with banks up front, focusing on how they approach the trendy technology.