Banking

The banking industry and outside observers weighed in Wednesday on a White House order that aims to bolster protection of the nation's critical infrastructure against cyberattack.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is launching a yearlong plan to help lenders comply with the onslaught of mortgage rules by the 2014 deadline.

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Space Coast CU announced plans this morning to open three new branches and relocate four others as part of an expansion of its 57-branch network.

PayPal, Lenovo and other industry heavy hitters are banding together to deploy new biometric authentication tools in a bid to beat back cyber-criminals.

American Express' move into social payments could be a boon for the transaction type, bringing to it what startups could not: marketing.

Visa's launch of a plug-and-play mobile money platform speaks to a rapidly maturing trend of using mobility to spread financial services to underbanked consumers and developing countries.

Visa's launch of a plug-and-play mobile money platform speaks to a rapidly maturing trend of using mobility to spread financial services to underbanked consumers and developing countries.

Western Union Co., the world’s biggest money-transfer business, fell after the company forecast continued revenue declines in 2013.

Cullen/Frost Bankers in San Antonio plans to raise $150 million by selling preferred stock.

Retail banks must start innovating, improve integration across channels and consider charging fees for services to maximize their return on investment.

Payleven, a mobile payment venture from the Samwer brothers' Rocket Internet incubator, started selling its mobile chip-and-PIN mobile card reader last week and received hundreds of orders for the new device.

Carol Galante, the head of the Federal Housing Administration, downplayed a coming budget estimate that is expected to show the agency will need taxpayer aid for the first time since it was founded in the 1930s.

Lawmakers were sharply divided on President Obama's brief remarks regarding the housing market during his State of the Union address Tuesday night.

The White House issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to strengthen protection of the nation's critical infrastructure against cyberattack.

The marketing analytics software company announced Tuesday a new app that shoots offers and rewards to opted-in bank customers' Facebook inboxes.

Ocwen Financial (OCN) is selling off parts of a company it recently purchased and another it expects to buy soon.

OptimumBank Holdings in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has hired a veteran banker as its chief executive. The $150 million-asset company said Tuesday that it had hired Timothy Terry.

ConnectOne had a strong IPO on Tuesday, giving it more funding for loans and acquisitions.

The Freedom Bank of Virginia is planning to cash in on the anticipated consolidation of government contractors.

Interest-only home loans are viewed as somewhat risky by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but that is unlikely to stop the San Francisco bank from making them, its CEO says.