Merchants won't know for sure until about midway through 2018 whether they received a significant win, after the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the anti-competition complaint against American Express.

China's Ant Financial Group, the company behind Alipay, was among eight companies that EMV standards governing body EMVCo has named as technical associates to its secure-payment consortium.

Credit union examiners will be focused on cybersecurity, BSA compliance, fraud prevention and more.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday launched a rate spread calculator and validation tool for financial companies reporting Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data starting Jan. 1.

Was the president’s recent tweet about enforcement measures against Wells Fargo an articulation of the administration’s approach for holding banks and executives accountable? Or is a tweet just a tweet?

For all of the noise in the payments industry around transitioning to real-time and same-day digital payments — and in the mainstream media around the bitcoin craze — paper checks still persist as the preferred means of disbursement for the majority of business-to-business transactions.

Banks plan to spend more on blockchain and AI in the coming year, and appear willing to explore new technology partnerships.

The McLean, Va., company and several other banks have disclosed the charges they expect to record in the fourth quarter due to lower values on their deferred tax assets.

Banks plan to spend more on blockchain and AI in the coming year, and appear willing to explore new technology partnerships.

Russia will get a countrywide biometric database for financial services starting next summer, the central bank said.

Bank of America, PNC join a growing list of banks planning to use the anticipated savings from the reduction in the corporate tax rate to boost wages for employees.

The regulator on Thursday announced a delay in the implementation of its prepaid rule, along with safe harbor for HMDA data reporting.

Once 2018 arrives, significant new payment and data-sharing rules will take effect in Europe, and the fallout is expected to affect banks, merchants and technology vendors globally.

Readers sound off on Mick Mulvaney’s plan to hire political appointees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, question what’s behind the failure of Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Chicago, react to an argument that Equifax must endure, and more.

Moments after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it would reopen its mortgage disclosure rule, the bureau announced that the effective date for the prepaid rule would similarly be scrapped.

Banking regulatory agencies Thursday announced that they would raise the aggregate loan commitment threshold for syndicated loans to be included in the Shared National Credit program from $20 million to $100 million.

After Wells Fargo and Fifth Third said that the looming tax cut will allow them to raise pay, four smaller banks followed suit.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday that it plans to reopen its rulemaking for the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and will not assess penalties against mortgage lenders for any errors in data collected in 2018.

Earlier versions of the bill would have caused bigger changes in how Americans finance home purchases, higher education and retirement. Still, the final legislation will have important effects on borrowing and saving decisions.

The announcement Thursday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt agreed to let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each build a $3 billion capital buffer avoided a potential crisis.