Banking

Royal Bank of Canada's investment banking arm held a round of layoffs in the U.S., according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The Biden administration was accused in a lawsuit by six Republican-led states of overstepping its authority with a plan to forgive federal student loans.

U.S. banks closed almost 3,000 more branches than they opened last year, but credit unions' branch count crept up in the second quarter despite consumers' heavier reliance on digital channels for account management.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce set a goal of reducing the carbon-emissions intensity of its lending to power generators, adding to targets it has already placed on the oil and gas industry.

Nearly nine out of 10 bankers surveyed by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors ranked the specter of rising deposit costs and narrowing margins as their top concern.

The claim that these arrangements are unregulated is inaccurate, and instead, more oversight would destroy the benefits of banks working with fintechs on consumer products.

The Alabama bank must pay $191 million in connection with charges it levied on customers whose account balances went negative before a transaction was posted. Seven years ago, the CFPB imposed a $7.5 million overdraft-related fine on Regions.

In a policy proposal published Tuesday, Fed staffers called for supervisory changes to accommodate banks with commercial real estate loans still reeling from COVID.

Mike Swalley, the longtime president and CEO of the North Chesterfield, Virginia, credit union, will retire next year. An internal search committee has partnered with D. Hilton Associates to find a successor.

The London bank is working with Nova Credit to accept immigrants' credit histories from their home countries. It also invested $10 million in the company.

Bank of Nova Scotia shares are on pace for their worst year since 2008 as analysts warn of weakness in the Canadian lender's international business and uncertainty about the shake-up in its leadership.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said a shifting landscape has made it difficult for community banks to compete. She called for bank merger reform to make community bank M&A easier.

With the island still feeling the effects of Hurricane Maria five years earlier, organizations like the Inclusiv Network and the National Credit Union Foundation are providing support to institutions and residents starting to rebuild.

Leaders who set clear expectations do not create hostile settings. If anything, good people are motivated knowing what they do is noticed and matters.

JPMorgan Chase's U.K. digital lender has attracted 1 million customers in its first year of operation, making it one of the U.K.'s most popular neobanks.

Investors are looking past the current boom in loan activity, fearing that inflation and other factors will cool demand and make it harder for borrowers to make payments.

These 10 large banks posted superior returns between 2019 and 2021.

Western Alliance, in its first appearance on the list of leading banks with more than $50 billion of assets, landed at No. 1. The Phoenix company and the other top performers in this class have either created niche businesses, made acquisitions or done both.

The same day Provident Financial Services announced it had agreed to buy Lakeland for $1.3 billion, the seller disclosed an ongoing fair-lending investigation by the Justice Department. Provident said it has "not heard anything" that would give it pause.

President Biden's loan forgiveness plan will wipe out about one-third of student debt owed to the federal government, with lower-income borrowers and those living in Southern states getting the biggest boost, according to analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.