Readers weigh legislative proposals on pot banking, consider JPMorgan's new digital coin, debate the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s brokered deposit rules and more.

Page views and sales results don't explain which customers do what, and why they do things (or don't do them), in online and mobile banking.

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.

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?

OceanFirst in New Jersey shuttered more than a third of its branches but says nearly all the customers stuck with the bank because it trained employees to show customers how to go digital.

The moves are aimed at beefing up consumer lending and attracting deposits in markets where Citi has no branch presence.

The bank says it has restored access, but it hasn’t explained how a fire-suppression system at one facility could cause a nationwide outage across all of its channels, or how its system as a whole could have been left so vulnerable to the incident.

The company’s investment in a small business lender is said to be the biggest ever in Europe; the merger may raise questions from regulators, spur more mergers.

The merged bank would set up an innovation and technology center in Charlotte as part of its bid to compete better against the largest institutions and fintech startups.

Customers reported being unable to access online banking, mobile banking or their debit cards.