Natural disasters

From delivering water door to door to turning offices into shelters, bankers in the state have adapted their hurricane-response plans to offer customers and employees relief from the past week's snow emergency and power outages.

A severe cold snap in the state has tested financial institutions unaccustomed to such weather-related disruption.

Branches in the Gulf Coast region largely avoided massive flooding. Now bankers must assess the impact on employees and customers.

The agency said national banks could close offices “at their discretion” as a safety precaution if they are affected by fires in California and Colorado.

The account would complement the existing Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and could be replenished annually if banks and credit unions use the funds to help when natural disasters and other crises occur.

From natural disasters to pandemics, the best business-continuity strategy may simply be to ensure you have a strategy.

Recovery from a massive storm that touched down near Nashville is in its early stages, but bankers are looking at fee waivers and increased access to cash for those who were affected.

The largest bank in Puerto Rico said hundreds of millions of dollars of its mortgages and consumer loans are tied to the parts of the island hit by the recent quake or still recovering from two hurricanes.

From power outages to branch closures and even homeless kangaroos, rampant wildfires have presented credit unions in Australia with challenges they've rarely seen before.

A group of 64 House lawmakers is pushing congressional leadership to incorporate premium caps and address a new methodology for assessing risk in flood insurance reform legislation.