TD Bank

Canada's big banks are pursuing wholesale banking, capital markets and select M&A opportunities across the border to hedge against a slowing mortgage market and other economic concerns on the home front.

The good news: SBA lending is going gangbusters and business owners are optimistic about growth prospects and their ability to access credit. The not-so-good news: Many firms are still not particularly interested in borrowing and startups are not the engines of job creation they once were.

Payments stayed the same for years, then started evolving rapidly. That has issuers considering different ways to help consumers manage the change.

Millennial homeowners are more likely to be current and future users of home equity lines of credit than either Gen-Xers or baby boomers.

MySpend, the app created by TD Bank and Moven, is a hit in Canada. The companies have signed an agreement to extend exclusivity to the U.S.

Technology is moving at light speed beyond smartphones. To compete in this environment, banks need to zero in on solving for basic human needs.

Canadian banks hope to create an environment where consumers have more control over who is able to view their personal data.

Banks like TD and U.S. Bancorp are suddenly taking public shots from current and former employees critical of their sales practices, a sign that the industry has not put behind it the questions raised months ago by the phony-accounts scandal at Wells.

Mark Tucker, the British bank's new chairman, will look to replace its outgoing CEO; A Canadian television network says bank employees were pressured to phony up accounts to meet sales targets.

The number of auto loans classified as delinquent rose sharply in the fourth quarter, raising further questions about whether the segment is getting overheated.