After a Texas bank settled allegations by the Department of Justice, experts were split about the extent of the exposure for banks and fintechs that took part in the pandemic-era program.

Scams against the elderly are responsible for more than $3 billion in losses each year, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Credit unions say they are seeing more cases, and often the hardest part is getting the victims to admit they've been taken advantage of.

The Minneapolis bank disclosed the investigation four months after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a settlement with Bank of America over the distribution of unemployment insurance benefits on prepaid debit cards.

A Justice Department probe into a controversial corner of the crypto world — Tether — has been struggling to reach a conclusion. Now a new team is taking a crack at investigating whether executives behind the popular stablecoin committed a crime.

New developments in the banking app space include apps for Gen Z bankers and the relaunch of Google Wallet.

A Bloomberg News analysis found more than 45 groups and pages — with more than 1 million combined members — where the spoils of cyber crimes and the tools needed to carry them out were offered for sale.

Decentralized finance, the once red-hot slice of the crypto universe that was at the center of this year's collapse of the digital-asset world, is facing a rapidly increasing new challenge: financial hacking.

An uptick in so-called operating losses helped drive up noninterest expenses excluding M&A costs at Truist Financial by 2% year over year, complicating its efforts to achieve positive operating leverage. The cost of reimbursing customers hurt by fraud seems to have been a contributing factor.

A criminal group called Prilex has stolen millions in a scheme involving fake repair people installing malware on point of sale terminals.

Victims of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme will soon get another $372 million in payouts, bringing the total amount distributed from a government fund to more than $4 billion since the collapse of the fraudster's company in 2008.