Banking

Banks have extra reason to be concerned by the news that a commonly used piece of software could be exploited by hackers.

Yan Zhao, President of NYDIG as she exploreshow Bitcoin is experiencing wider adoption in the traditional finance world, and why that is.

The buyer, Union Bank of the Philippines, will pay about $904 million for Citi's local credit card, unsecured lending, deposit, brokerage and investment businesses.

There are more than 20,000 Holocaust survivors in the New York City area, and roughly a third of them are said to live in poverty. New York-chartered financial institutions should voluntarily waive transfer and processing charges on payments to reparations recipients, the state’s financial services regulator says.

The mission of the North Carolina company, founded by banks to archive digital images of checks, has evolved over the last 20 years. It is migrating to a public cloud to help it expand beyond check services.

President Biden extended the pause on federal student loan repayments by another three months as the U.S. faces a fresh wave of COVID-19 cases from the omicron variant, removing a near-term threat to millions of Americans’ finances.

These executives are adapting to changing customer demands amid rebounding M&A and coronavirus-related challenges.

A dispersed workforce presents added cybersecurity challenges resulting from employees accessing their organization’s networks through a home connection. This new reality reinforces the need for financial institutions to transform their digital infrastructure to guard against breaches.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued LendUp in September, alleging that the digital payday lender consistently misled customers about the benefits repeatedly using its loan products.

Credit unions are looking for approval to hold digital assets like Bitcoin directly, after a federal regulator clarified they can provide cryptocurrency services to customers by partnering with third parties. 

The state Department of Financial Protection and Innovation issued a cease-and-desist order against Nano Banc, saying the troubled bank violated an earlier consent agreement when it replaced five board members and appointed a new CEO without the regulator’s permission.

Unity of Eatonville Federal Credit Union will spend its first year focusing on auto lending and deposit services.

Kit Snyder, who has led Consumers since 1983, will be succeeded by Scott Sylvester, the credit union's chief operations officer.

Eli Tinsley, the bank's chief banking officer, was promoted to president and chief executive.

Experts discuss the proliferation of chief diversity officers across the industry and what it may mean for future progress in diversity.

The Oklahoma bank is eager to take the ground some competitors are ceding in oil and gas financing.

Darryl White has made no secret of the Canadian company’s intentions to expand its U.S. presence, and the deal for San Francisco-based Bank of the West would give it a foothold in the nation’s largest and richest state.

Alloy Labs Alliance, a consortium of community banks, is working with the fintech Payrailz on a project called "Chuck" that would route peer-to-peer payments over different networks, based on which is least expensive for each transaction.

Some established financial technology companies like Robinhood are said to be refusing to accept funds from accounts at young digital-only banks that they say are growing too fast to deter fraud. The companies being blocked respond that it’s an unfair, scattershot approach.

The acquisition would give Avadian, which is based in Birmingham, two more locations in its home state and increase its assets to approximately $1.2 billion.