The Federal Housing Administration's loan sales are drawing more attention after a recent critical report said it was resulting in vulnerable borrowers losing their homes.

In the ongoing melee between the two major players, strong authentication has been put on the backburner in favor of the respective economies of implementing chip card technology.

Large enough to meet the needs of most customers yet small enough to escape some of the Dodd-Frank Act's most onerous compliance expenses, banks with assets of $2 billion to $10 billion are more profitable, as a group, than their smaller and larger counterparts, according to an analysis by Capital Performance Group.

In the battle among banks to make use of blockchain, Banco Santander SA’s U.K. unit said it’s first among British lenders to use the technology for global payments.

Instead of shuttering poor-performing locations, this Idaho CU is plumbing the demographics of who uses each of its branches to customize each one to the target audience in that particular area.

The city has launched a feasibility study to determine if it is worthwhile to sell some of the debt to a third party.

The CFPB has handled approximately 143,700 complaints about credit reporting - including wrong information on reports and problems have errors resolved - since October 2012.

Recent legislative proposals to make piecemeal changes to the government-sponsored enterprises could set broader GSE reform on the wrong path.

TCF Financial in Wayzata, Minn., is hoping a new product line aimed at the underbanked will also breathe new life into its once-bustling branches.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., targets the collection system used on several toll roads operated by the state’s Transportation Corridor Agencies.

Consumers applying for a new mortgage are on average two to three times more likely to open a new auto loan or credit card account over the next 12 months, according to a new TransUnion study. Many of these consumers open these accounts as soon as one month after their existing mortgage payoff.

New research findings challenge common assumptions about borrower behavior, illustrating how trended data — something mortgage lenders will soon be required to collect — could be a game-changer.

Smartphones are an important window into understanding underbanked customers, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in a report released Wednesday in conjunction with a meeting of the agency's advisory committee on economic inclusion.

The $25 billion-asset subsidiary of First Horizon National said in a press release Wednesday that Louis Allen, executive vice president and manager of commercial banking for the bank's west Tennessee region, will be promoted to regional president June 30.

Fulton Financial in Lancaster, Pa., has hired Lynn Ozer as president of Small Business Administration lending. Before joining Fulton, Ozer led a small-business lending team at Susquehanna Bancshares that was largely dismissed after the company's sale to BB&T.

Valley National Bank in Wayne, N.J., has appointed former PNC executive Robert Bardusch to be its chief information officer.

TCF Financial in Minnesota has launched a set of products targeting low-income customers. The company, which has closed a fifth of its branches in recent years, hopes underbanked clients will boost traffic at its remaining locations.

A report by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors found that consolidated companies with money transmitter licenses fell more than 10% from 518 in the first quarter of 2015, to 456 this year.

Shore Community Bank in Toms River, N.J., has called on some old friends to lead the board of directors.

Overall household debt rises while consumer repayment rates improve, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's latest Household Debt and Credit report.