Banking

With a strong financial commitment and a goal of "building cool stuff," the Boston community bank hopes to continue to innovate.

A stable of in-house development talent helps Florida's C1 Financial create cutting-edge apps.

Using Splunk Cloud, Orrstown is trying to go beyond merely monitoring network traffic at a time when cyber threats keep mounting.

The Boston bank has become one of the few to let customers open accounts by snapping a photo of their driver's license.

One in three struggling homeowners who received a loan modification through the Home Affordable Modification Program ultimately redefaulted on those loan.Meanwhile, the program that was supposed to help some 4 million families avoid foreclosure has helped only a fraction of that amount, according to a report presented to Congress.

An Illinois bank has pioneered the use of a mobile app that queues up ATM transactions.

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday formally signed off on the creation of a national intelligence center to share information about cyber threats.

The acquisitive Bank of North Carolina is using a new iPad and desktop app to help its frontline employees make product recommendations to customers.

The Connecticut lender overhauled its enterprise risk management system after becoming frustrated with inefficient spreadsheets.

The bank that got Moven and Simple off the ground is coming out with real-time payments, through a clever use of debit networks.

Deutsche Bank's U.S. division has hired JPMorgan Chase executive Jeff Urwin to head its corporate finance activities and co-head its corporate banking and securities business.

Digit, a startup in San Francisco targeting millennials, has launched a service that crunches checking account data to determine daily amounts to automatically transfer into users' savings accounts. Its debut points to how personal financial management services are growing up to do the work on the consumer's behalf.

A senior regulatory official on Wednesday continued the alarm bell over the brisk growth in auto lending, suggesting that some lending terms could be setting up banks for trouble.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a proposal Wednesday aimed at improving the way that companies submit consumer credit card agreements to the bureau.

A contingent of former Corinthian Colleges Inc. students, backed by student advocates and more than a dozen Senate Democrats, has demanded that the U.S. Department of Education forgive thousands of federal student loans taken out by Corinthian students.

Banks would likely not see an immediate effect from the Federal Communications Commission's open Internet plan, but experts say it could prevent future discriminatory moves by carriers that want to compete more in offering financial services.

Doral Financial's future took another blow after the Puerto Rican company disclosed that its bank is now viewed by regulators as being "critically undercapitalized."

Officials in Elmhurst, Ill., a Chicago suburb, are looking at hiring a new collection agency to pursue overdue parking tickets and other delinquencies.

Gemalto NV, the world's largest provider of high-security mobile-phone and bank-card chips, said U.S. and U.K. spies were probably behind the most sophisticated computer attacks on its networks in at least five years — though failed to steal a large amount of data.