Banking

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will conduct supervisory exams of nonbank fintech companies that pose risks to consumers as Director Rohit Chopra seeks to level the regulatory playing field with supervised banks.

The National Credit Union Administration took steps to increase hires of women, minorities and people with disabilities in 2021, making its staff more representative of the general population.

The Expanding Financial Access for Underserved Communities Act will help in the fight to eliminate financial disparities in underserved communities across our country.

The industry is preparing for a grueling federal rulemaking process to implement the Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to streamline anti-money-laundering compliance. Analysts say the devil will be in the regulation’s myriad details.

Executives at the Alabama bank anticipated that some corporate deposits would start to leave during the first quarter as interest rates rose. Instead, deposits grew to a record $138.7 billion.

Lenders don't oppose CFPB data collection for small-business loans but favor changes that would minimize unintended consequences for borrowers, a Consumer Bankers Association official writes.

The Wisconsin company is the latest bank to plan cutbacks in the fees. Its fee income is projected to fall by about 2% from its level last quarter.

A recent survey suggests the public thinks banks outperform credit unions on digital offerings. One industry expert says the opposite is true.

A sell-off of technology stocks this year has helped dissuade firms from going public. But Silicon Valley Bank’s parent company, which counts many tech firms among its clients, says the pullback hasn’t spread to smaller startups and the venture-capital funds that finance them.

New guidelines proposed by the Federal Reserve last month do not go far enough to define who can get an account and how, according to a joint comment letter from several banking trade associations. The process has become contentious as more fintechs seek access to the reserve system.

The U.K.’s markets regulator has told challenger banks to improve their financial crime controls, saying some are failing to carry out adequate checks on new customers.

The Columbus, Ohio, bank, which already makes more loans than any other lender in the Small Business Administration's flagship program, is testing a plan to offer them outside of its Midwestern footprint.

Health care, home improvement, cannabis, gaming and college students are among the areas banks are targeting with the help of innovative tools.

The New York bank is planning a broad launch of its new checking account later this year. Starting this week, more than 20,000 Goldman employees have a chance to try it out.

Last year, the Cleveland bank stopped providing cards to government benefit recipients in the Prairie State. During the first quarter, it reported a 23.8% decline in noninterest income from cards and payment services.

The Georgia bank warns that the one-two punch of rising inflation and supply-chain issues on its smaller commercial customers makes that asset class “something we would watch” for potential losses.

Viktoria Earle, who has been with the credit union since 2013, will take over for Craig Weber in May.

Noah Bank is considering proposals from an investor group and a New Jersey-based peer.

To appeal to a younger audience, credit unions are teaming up with third parties that can help them offer Bitcoin accounts, real-time payments and other cutting-edge services.

The U.S. moratorium on student-loan payments is slated to be lifted at the end of August, but more than half of borrowers said in a survey that they wouldn’t be able to make a single monthly payment today if they had to.