Banking

As digital transactions increase, branch transaction volumes continue their year-over-year declines, according to a new study published by FMSI.

Observers have suggested that if EMV or chip-and-PIN cards were required throughout the U.S., a recent $45 million fraud that involved some U.S. ATMs would have been prevented. A closer look at the incident suggests this may not be so.

Regulators usually shut down banks on Friday nights to minimize disruption. However, no rule says failures have to occur on the sixth day of the week. Here is a look, in pictures, at noteworthy seizures on days other than Friday.

NCR Corporation has installed the first ATM in the country that complies with the so-called Europay, MasterCard and Visa, or EMV, standard, which is intended to reduce fraud.

Commerce Bank founder Vernon Hill has lost his bid to collect more than $17 million in back pay from Toronto-Dominion Bank, which bought Commerce in 2007.

Shareholders at HopFed Bancorp have elected a director nominated by a critic of the Hopkinsville, Ky., company's latest acquisition deal.

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said that he believes the government-sponsored enterprises need to be retained in some form because the guarantee they provide is important to investors.

As much as David Fiderer and others try to defend the GSEs and the policies that drove them into insolvency, the taxpayers who bailed them out are unlikely to be fooled.

Financial software firm Akcelerant has updated its loan-origination technology.

Analytics firm Xenomorph is bringing its data-management program TimeScape — which financial firms can use for trading, risk management, information technologies and back-office functions — to Microsoft's cloud platform, Windows Azure.

The board of First Northern Community Bancorp in Dixon, Calif., has elected new leadership.

The tech company's new services represent a virtual slap in the face for the likes of banks and PayPal. If added to Google Glass, they potentially represent a knockout punch.

Bank of New York Mellon, the world's largest custody bank, is hiring as many as 100 people in its wealth-management unit as it seeks to counter lackluster earnings in other businesses.

ShopKeep POS designed Surround 360, its iPad point of sale software, to protect independent sales organizations from competitors out to "steal" merchant clients.

DERRY, N.H. – Granite State Credit Union has gotten the OK to move a branch into a facility formerly occupied by Community Bank & Trust here.

Now that shareholders have agreed to let Jamie Dimon keep both his jobs at JPMorgan Chase, the chairman and chief executive must resolve several pressing issues. Among them: succession, board composition and mounting regulatory scrutiny.

Gries Investment Fund, a Florida investment group, has canceled plans to buy Southern Commerce Bank in Tampa, according to a newspaper report.

Lawmakers blasted senior officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday, arguing they were too rigid with recently finalized mortgage rules that could choke off access to credit.

JPMorgan Chase shareholders have voted in favor of allowing Jamie Dimon to continue in his dual role as chairman and CEO. However, Dimon emerges from the fight bruised and facing formidable challenges.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Starbucks Corp. are among 19 retailers opting out of a $7.25 billion antitrust settlement with Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over fees charged to merchants to process credit-card transactions.