Economy

If the new White House engages in the same process of listening to and researching the fintech industry that President Obama initiated eight years ago, startups should just take a pass.

Add package pickup to the growing list of things banks are doing with branches as foot traffic declines.

Net income was also aided by a sharp drop in the provision for credit losses as chargeoffs on energy loans continued to decline.

Rising interest rates typically cause lenders to relax underwriting guidelines. The incoming administration promises to deregulate. Sounds like a combustible mix, but there's ample room to loosen credit without returning to the practices that caused the crisis.

Donald Trump was sworn in Friday, but banking industry executives have spent the last two months envisioning a vastly different political, economic and regulatory climate. The dominant question in coming months will be how realistic those expectations are.

The financial services industry has high hopes that President Trump will usher in a new era of less regulation and economic growth. Here are challenges his administration will face.

On earnings calls this week CEOs expressed optimism for increased loan demand, a softer tone from regulators, a higher SIFI threshold and, potentially, a surge of interest in health savings accounts.

In his confirmation hearing, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin said he wanted to work with both parties to find a “bipartisan fix” for the housing finance system.

Labor Department sues JPM over discriminatory pay practices; Krawcheck: key to closing equality gap is financial equality; Rep. Maloney: administration should make gender pay gap a top priority.

The rally in bank stocks since Donald Trump's surprise victory in November has minted a new billionaire banker ahead of Friday's inauguration: M&T Bank CEO Robert Wilmers.

Royal Bank of Scotland is considering taking a multi-billion dollar charge in the fourth quarter for a U.S. mortgage securities probe that would give an indication of the size of the full settlement.

The New York bank weathered headwinds in its taxi-medallion portfolio to post double-digit growth in earnings and net interest income during the fourth quarter.

In a candid, in-depth exit interview, Ted Tozer discusses Ginnie Mae's growth during his seven years at the agency's helm, the need for comprehensive housing finance reform, big banks' retreat from mortgages, counterparty risk management and more.

Rising interest rates typically cause lenders to relax underwriting guidelines. The incoming administration promises to deregulate. Sounds like a combustible mix, but there's ample room to loosen credit without returning to the practices that caused the crisis.

Michael Corbat told analysts Tuesday that Citi will no longer report Citi Holdings, its erstwhile "bad bank," as a separate entity.

And the next HUD chief might eventually rescind it altogether.

President-elect Trump has nominated Linda McMahon, a co-founder of the World Wrestling Federation, to run the Small Business Administration for the next four years. If confirmed, McMahon, a Republican, will inherit an agency that has supported record loan volume lately, but that many bankers still view as too bureaucratic and inefficient. We asked bankers and small-business advocates what is working well at the SBA, what they would like to see improved, and what else the Trump administration could do to stimulate small-business growth. Here's what they had to say.

An improving picture in the energy sector helped Hancock Holding in Gulfport, Miss., report a huge jump in fourth-quarter profit.

Northern Trust’s fourth-quarter profit surged due to higher trust fees, improved credit quality and the benefit accrued to its profit margin from an increase in short-term interest rates.

Higher lending for mortgages, construction and commercial real estate boosted Fulton Financial's profit.