Avoid viewing millennials as a monolithic group. Consider parsing them into subgroups such as affluent, homebuyers, entrepreneurs and savers. The smarter move may be removing the age bracket blinders entirely.

Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that out-of-state payday lenders will have to follow the state’s strict lender law for Internet loans, rejecting an argument that the law is unconstitutional.

U.S. homeowners continue to take advantage of rising house prices to dig themselves out of the hole created by the Great Recession.

It started out as a chat over dinner and cocktails between a director of Trans Pacific National Bank and Dr. Robert Murray, a part-time physician for the San Francisco Giants.

WASHINGTON — The House voted 303 to 121 on Wednesday to pass a bill that would delay enforcement of new mortgage disclosures that went into effect on Oct. 3.

Royal Bank of Canada has received approval from the Federal Reserve Board to buy City National in Los Angeles.

Dime Community Bancshares in Brooklyn, N.Y., has agreed to sell a number of real estate properties for $80 million.

Banks say the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plan to ban arbitration clauses for individual claims will aid trial lawyers, while consumer advocates say the move is overdue and may not go far enough.

The $1.5 billion-asset bank issued $25 million of subordinated notes due 2025 in a private placement. WashingtonFirst used the proceeds to redeem $8.9 million in SBLF preferred shares, which it issued to the Treasury Department in 2011.

Traditional banks avoid the short-term-credit market because its customers demand a level of customer service that is inconsistent with current models of retail banking, the head of a payday lending group writes.

Boston Private Financial Holdings has appointed a Silicon Valley executive to its board.

Consumer borrowing rose in August at the slowest pace in six months, reflecting a cooling in lending for student loans and autos, but still reached a record $3.47 trillion, according to Federal Reserve figures.

Relationship and people skills certainly remain important, but today's wealth management leaders require far more than those largely sales-oriented abilities.

WASHINGTON — It may not be an outright ban on arbitration clauses, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's impending proposal to enable more class-action lawsuits comes close.

The Delaware company reported nominal profit in the second quarter as it attempted to sell off its commercial loans and address concerns listed in a year-old regulatory order.

Approximately 17.6 million people over the age of 16 reported at least one incident of identity theft in 2014, according to a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Capital Commerce Bancorp in Milwaukee has raised more than $11 million through a private placement.

Middlefield Banc Corp. in Middlefield, Ohio, has bought out its largest shareholder.

Empowering women to become more financially independent has been a hallmark of Lori Chillingworth's career as a small-business banker. Now she's on an even bigger mission: to help more women in Utah gain seats on corporate boards and compete for political office.

A group of private investors has agreed to buy Radius Bancorp in Boston.