Banking

Small business owners in Europe certainly won't have a shortage of mobile payment options to choose from, as more companies enter the market locally and from the U.S.

Just as the plastic card liberated many consumers from a reliance on cash and coin, alternative payment sources are gaining enough adoption to steal transactions from plastic — with a little help from the very companies these digital currencies threaten.

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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has outbid its competitors to snag about a third of the ATMs, the most of any financial institution, located at the busiest airport in New England.

Criticized in the past for its high fees, the company rolls out a new flat-fee account that does away with charges for bounced checks, account inactivity and using out-of-network ATMs.

The selloff in Treasuries that extended through much of this month underscores the dangers of adding exposure to long-dated bonds, but both large and small banks have been doing just that in recent quarters. Use this interactive graphic to examine the maturity profiles holding companies with at least $1 billion in assets.

Hamilton Bank in Baltimore has received regulatory approval to take the second step to a stock-owned company from a mutual holding company.

Can corporate policy training feel like an episode of CSI? Cristobal Conde believes it can in a big way. The former SunGard chief arrives at True Office, a firm that uses elements of gaming to help institutions teach corporate employees about how to prevent data breaches, money laundering and other standards and compliance issues that reside inside banks and other businesses.

Payments-industry rivals sometimes put their differences aside to achieve a common goal.

Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (KFFB) is seeking to waive its right to receive a dividend despite lingering uncertainty as to whether regulators will allow mutual holding companies to make that move.

About 6,000 U.S. banks, including those as small as $500 million in assets, are required to implement the "standardized" approach in Basel III. Ernst & Young's Peter Davis discusses the extent of the changes they face.

Live Gamer Inc. has typically provided virtual currency services to video game developers, but as Nevada prepares to let casinos take their high-stakes games online, the vendor is betting that its expertise will prove valuable when the games put real cash at stake.

A controversial proposal to seize underwater mortgages through eminent domain faces significant legal challenges in California because the three municipalities do not have statutory authority to convey loans to a private company.

Borrowers are paying down their card and loan debts. The big exception is student loans, according to new data published by Equifax.

Bitcoin lets users send money nearly instantaneously, at almost no cost, and (if desired) anonymously. Getting funds in and out of the system is the hard part. That may soon change.

Borrowers are paying down their debts across a number of credit categories — with the big exception being student loans, according to new data published by Equifax.

The Treasury Department recouped $62.4 million in its latest auction of the securities it owns from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, but it was unable to find a buyer for shares Guaranty Federal Bancshares in Springfield, Mo.

The app provides direct mobile enrollment, so customers aren't required to open an online banking account first.

The PayPal-Discover deal; Dunkin' Donuts follows Starbucks into mobile payments; a Bitcoin MasterCard?

Politicians, regulators and lenders still have much to learn from a period dominated by the "affordable housing" ideology.