Banking

Singapore country head Shee Tse Koon describes the bank's push to create a massive marketplace that offers everything from hotel reservations to health care.

Bank of America is facing off in court with the bond insurer Ambac Financial Group in a $2.7 billion case that's one of its last legal hangovers from the subprime crisis.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union recently sold $460.3 million in securities backed by prime auto loans.

The country's agricultural industry is struggling with rising costs, disrupted shipping routes and bombed-out crop fields. The Ukraine Agricultural Loan Reimbursement Program offers to ease the pain by covering 10% of principal payments for ag loans.

The bank received 341 technology patents in the first half of the year and says it has more patents than any other financial services company. However, executives have acknowledged that they aren't all usable.

Mike Maguire will succeed Daryl Bible as the North Carolina bank's finance chief. Maguire has been in charge of Truist's consumer finance and payments businesses for nearly two years.

The credit-cards-as-a-service model allows small banks to develop more products — and keep more revenue — than they had when working with agent banks.

Major foreign banks are just as important to the U.S. financial system as large domestic banks, and ought to be regulated as such.

After the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cracked down on a $2.8 billion-asset bank, industry observers expect more scrutiny of the ties between banks and financial technology startups.

Technology designed to direct more consumers online can create difficulties for groups that rely on branches and other in-person services, according to Janis Bowdler, a racial equity counselor with the Treasury Department.

Lawmakers in the nation's most populous state failed to pass a measure, opposed by industry groups, that would have required larger companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions. Publicly traded companies may soon face similar requirements at the federal level.

The North Carolina bank's insurance subsidiary agreed to pay $3.4 billion to buy BankDirect Capital Finance. The sale reflects opposing strategies by the two companies.

The National Credit Union Administration's Corporate System Resolution program began in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to help the regulatory agency offset the failures of four corporate credit unions.

Pinnacle Credit Union in Atlanta, RVA Financial Federal Credit Union in Richmond, Virginia, and MUNA Federal Credit Union in Meridian, Mississippi, are combining into a single organization as a way to pool resources despite their lack of proximity.

Banks make up just 10% of the client base for Eltropy, which hopes to increase that number through two tech acquisitions that add video banking and artificial intelligence capabilities.

Citigroup joined rivals in trimming the ranks of its mortgage workforce as rising interest rates continue to crimp demand in the housing market. 

Higher mortgage rates have led to a sharp slowdown in cash-out refinances. Second mortgages were up nearly 50% in the first five months of the year as homeowners looked for new ways to borrow against their equity.

The top 5 have over 10 billion in assets.