Financial institutions

A bipartisan group of senators is proposing legislation to require the Financial Stability Oversight Council to weigh alternatives before putting a large, complex nonbank under Federal Reserve supervision.

Nick Zappia is joining the bank from rival BNY Mellon in what is one of the first key hires of new CEO Kelly Coffey.

The regional bank, which recently agreed to buy SunTrust, is co-developing a game to help elementary-school kids learn to read.

The combined bank would be chartered in North Carolina, with the FDIC serving as its lead federal regulator, N.C. Banking Commissioner Ray Grace says. The merger partners had other options, including the Fed and the OCC.

More than two years after Wells Fargo's consumer scandals first came to light, the congressional backlash facing the bank is bipartisan and just as fierce.

Big bank mergers have historically been a catalyst for startups. Experts say it could happen again.

Loyal Trust Bank will have a large number of Asian-American investors and board members.

It took less than six months to hammer out the biggest bank merger in more than a decade, and the price was one of the last things discussed, according to a new federal filing.

Readers consider Square's bid to become an industrial loan company, weigh the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s oversight of brokered deposits and debate reforms to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The bank will fund community development financial institutions that lend to women-owned businesses backed by the fashion designer's foundation.