Coronavirus

Unlike past economic recessions where businesses and consumers have had to adjust their payment habits and debt levels over the course of months or quarters as the economy shrank, the coronavirus-induced economic crisis has forced many to make much more abrupt financial adjustments.

Jennifer Roberts, the company's head of business banking, details a process to have units work one-on-one with customers to get Paycheck Protection Program funds deployed faster.

The credit union regulator has implemented a host of measures to help the industry manage the pandemic, but there may be only so much it can do without congressional action.

A transparent, decentralized ledger will speed up payments while mitigating the inevitable next round of federal mismanagement, says Polyient Labs' Jeff Hinkle.

The challenge posed by digital-only remittance services has prompted a rapid change at MoneyGram.

Lawmakers are working to head off a wave of pandemic-related personal credit downgrades. But there are bigger problems with how credit risk is assessed that are harder to solve.

With the pandemic fueling anxiety about public transportation and dense urban offices, financial firms in Manhattan are looking elsewhere for space to let workers spread out and avoid commuting into the city.

The Miramar, Fla.-based institution is spending $85,000 to help businesses as the economy begins reopening.

A program from the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions will provide personal protective equipment for CUs in the Eastern European nation after they were forced to close earlier this spring amid the outbreak.

The Small Business Administration gave lenders some direction ⁠for closing out Paycheck Protection Program loans. Bankers say it's an encouraging start, but they want more protection from liability and a concession on nonpayroll expenses.

Some staff will be sitting at different desks, and in some cases different floors, when they return to work, according to the memo sent to employees Wednesday.

To get a better handle on the coronavirus-driven boom in Latin American e-commerce, cross-border processors are ramping up digital alternatives for shoppers who pay cash for online purchases.

With the stakes now higher than ever, we can expect to see a marked acceleration in payments transformation initiatives, says Icon Solutions' Simon Wilson.

Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting says the revised Community Reinvestment Act will provide more credit access to communities in need and won't, as some had feared, create new thresholds for grading banks.

As many countries and U.S. states now begin to lift stay-at-home orders, fraudsters too are being unleashed to return to familiar targets such as bank branches, ATMs and retail stores.

The sessions are interactive, and viewers can purchase products at any time during the session by clicking on a small product window and making a purchase with an app such as Alipay, says Azoya International's Franklin Chu.

Lenders are scrambling to pause ranchers’ loan payments as meat processing plant shutdowns during the pandemic threaten $25 billion in losses for the livestock industry.

The final regulation will significantly revise a December proposal, responding to concerns from stakeholders. Meanwhile, in a surprising move, the regulator who had championed the reforms is expected to resign this week.

The memo from CEO Michael Corbat acknowledged the challenges many employees have faced working remotely during the coronavirus outbreak while taking care of family members and home-schooling their children.

Nearly 4 million households that were to be mailed paper checks will instead receive their pandemic relief aid via prepaid debit cards issued by MetaBank.