Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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The results suggest that consumers who buy Green Dot cards are using them with greater frequency or for longer periods of time than they have in the past.
February 20 -
The agency’s effort is a good first step to updating brokered deposit rules, but regulators excluded several important considerations in their advance notice of proposed rulemaking.
February 20 -
Fairwinds Credit Union in Orlando is set to buy Friends Bank, the third time this year a Florida-based bank has agreed to sell to a credit union.
February 20 -
The Illinois company will pay $46 million for a bank that is a fraction of its size.
February 20 -
Fairwinds Credit Union's deal for Friends Bank marks the third time this year that a Florida bank has agreed to be sold to a credit union.
February 20 -
A new initiative aims to help small credit unions survive and thrive, but a plethora of trends are working against them.
February 20 -
Bridgeview Bancorp floated its name with 14 potential buyers, but it only attracted serious interest once it promised to divest a mortgage business that recorded a double-digit decline in fee income last year.
February 19 -
The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs.
February 19 -
The rise of Uber, Lyft, Etsy, Kaggle and other forms of freelance work has sparked a new generation of specialist fintechs.
February 19 -
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Central National Bank rebranded as Stride Bank to move away from a name with overused words.
February 19 -
The company has agreed to buy Preferred Bancshares in a deal set to close by mid-2019.
February 18 -
"You can't meet customers at the headquarters," CEO Kevin Cummings tells his senior executives.
February 15 -
HomeStreet Bank will attempt to sell its stand-alone mortgage business and portfolio of servicing rights, a move that comes amid growing pressure from an activist investor to exit home lending and concerns about declining demand and regulatory challenges.
February 15 -
The JPM Coin will be used to expedite payments transfers for its corporate clients; customers of Spain’s largest retail bank will be able to withdraw cash without entering a PIN.
February 15 -
They all agree that legislation is needed, but the two approaches being offered are exposing tensions.
February 14 -
JPMorgan is prototyping its own digital currency to be used for cross-border payments and, later, other purposes. Will banks find this a palatable alternative to today's most well-known options?
February 14 -
Criticism of the National Credit Union Administration is unwarranted given the myriad of abuses banks commit.
February 14 -
While proponents contend the model could help reach the underbanked, there remain many arguments against it.
February 14 -
Regulators should clarify rules around deposit-advance products so that banks can serve consumers seeking short-term loans, like those affected by the recent partial closing of the government.
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