Risk management

TD and several other banks are licensing credit underwriting and fraud prevention technology from the fintech Avant to get their digital-lending products to market faster.

The heads of three agencies reiterated their concern about the bank’s progress in fixing risk management and corporate governance flaws.

Since Wells Fargo’s phony-accounts scandal broke in 2016, the bank has appeared contrite in public. In private, it’s a different story.

The battle lines drawn over federal efforts to restrict bank relationships with politically risky industries used to be clear cut. Not anymore.

Some contracts are not "adequately" defining which party — the bank or the vendor — is responsible for managing risks, the agency said.

Current rules developed in the early 1990s were driven more by politics than facts.

More attention should be paid to strategically preventing and mitigating problems that harm bank reputations.

Letters to eight bank CEOs from the Idaho senator were a rebuttal to calls by some Democrats for financial institutions to cut ties with firearms manufacturers, prison companies and others.

The bill by Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and John Kennedy, R-La., would block banks and credit unions with over $10 billion of assets from refusing service to "customers that may not share the same political values."

U.S. banks accounted for nearly 40% of the financing worldwide to such firms, according to a report by Rainforest Action Network.

Speaking at a press conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the bank’s risk management failures have required a dramatic overhaul of its processes.

The bank was fined $25 million for what the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said was an inability to provide the discounts to all who were eligible.

The Federal Housing Administration is returning to manual reviews of higher-risk loans it insures because it's finding that a growing share have lower credit scores, higher debt-to-income ratios, or both.

Federal regulators normally hesitate even to name specific institutions, but the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency appears to be taking a different tack with Wells.

With regulators and policymakers studying their every move, financial institutions need to put more focus on preventing mistakes in the first place.

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters said the CEO's 2018 bonus was "outrageous and wholly inappropriate" and called for his removal.

The digital lender and payments platform is tailoring its affinity banking services for a new market.

Two years ago, Ellen Richey became Visa's vice chairman and chief risk officer, propelled to this role by over a decade of work that fundamentally changed how the average consumer makes a payment. Richey plans to retire this summer, ending a 40-year career in law and risk management.

Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan said that the megabank has worked to address past issues and is equally committed to preventing new problems from arising, despite reports suggesting otherwise.

The lab works with more than 200 data scientists to create access to affordable credit and help financial firms match products to customers, the company says.