The Federal Housing Administration wants lenders to make fewer mistakes when writing mortgages for the government insurance program. The agency also wants to serve more borrowers with low credit scores. Getting both may be tricky.

The rising student loan debt is inconsistent with trends for other U.S. consumer debt categories, according to analysis by Experian.

A lack of formal training programs and insufficient financial and career incentives limit the availability of skilled risk managers.

MoneyGram has acquired the assets of Nexxo Financial, a money transfer and prepaid technology provider in Burlingame, Calif.

A Wednesday hearing by a House Financial Services Subcommittee will examine whether medical debt should be considered part of the credit scoring and reporting system.

The operators of an illegal robocall scheme, under an order Tuesday from a federal district court in New York, can no longer falsely promise to obtain refunds for consumers from the Federal Trade Commission.

East West Bancorp in Los Angeles has been hit with a nearly $39 million in damages tied to a lawsuit from a borrower.

MoneyGram has acquired the assets of Nexxo Financial, a money transfer and prepaid technology provider in Burlingame, Calif.

Fueled by demand for auto loans and higher credit card balances, U.S. consumer borrowing soared in July and posted its biggest jump since November 2001.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is receptive to the idea of Federal Home Loan Bank mergers, according to the agency's director.

Richard Fairbank acknowledged that increased competition among lenders is leading to looser loan terms, but said the industry is still normalizing after an extraordinary recession-era period.

A top executive at American Express acknowledged Monday that the firm's efforts to persuade consumers to pay with their mobile phones have so far been a failure.

Banks are looking to cross-sell products, and they're targeting commercial and industrial borrowers to do the buying. It is a result of higher capital and liquidity requirements, and the fact that commercial borrowers are the best targets.

BB&T is back the business of buying banks for the first time in several years, even though most of its peers think regulators are opposed to big-bank M&A. BB&T's investments in compliance improvements make its executives feel confident about getting new deals done, CEO Kelly King says.

Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., has hired Dawn Melesko to serve as director of social media for BankMobile, the mobile and tablet banking platform it plans to launch in late summer 2014.

Nonbank mortgage lenders boosted loan production by 50% in the second quarter, relying heavily on higher purchase volumes, Richey May & Co. said Monday.

Consumer borrowing in the U.S. rose more than forecast in July as non-revolving loans including those for cars climbed by the most in three years.

Braintree, a payment technology business owned by eBay and PayPal, has opened up Bitcoin acceptance to its merchant clients, including airbnb, GitHub, Uber and LivingSocial.

SB Financial in Defiance, Ohio, has redeemed $10.3 million in trust-preferred securities, in an effort to lower its interest-related expenses.

Community bankers are launching a last-ditch effort to push the Senate this year to pass more than a dozen bipartisan regulatory relief bills that have already cleared the House with support from both parties.