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Santander's Ana Botin is plotting to make the global banking giant even bigger. Senators suspect a Wall Street cover-up of sexual harassment, and Capital One gets sued by the NAACP. ... Read full article

The estimated costs of recent digital glitches at BB&T, TD and Wells Fargo are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but contractual and economic realities make it hard for banks to sue vendors for the money or fall back on insurance policies. ... Read full article

The Russia probe puts a national spotlight on a Chicago bank exec; CFPB's Mulvaney and Sen. Warren face off (again) while a credit union CEO takes a surprising position on the industry's tax exemption. ... Read full article

The Senate is poised to pass the most substantial bank regulatory relief since the crisis, but any disruption of the post-crisis regime is still eclipsed by how much the bill enshrines Dodd-Frank. ... Read full article

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is among several agencies that "continue to investigate events related to" last year's Equifax brief, the credit reporting firm said in a securities filing. ... Read full article

The bank overcharged some customers and some received inappropriate investment advice; 2.4 million more people were affected by the breach. ... Read full article

California State Treasurer John Chiang, who’s on the boards of the state’s biggest pension funds, was among those who said the changes weren't enough. Chiang also called for CEO Tim Sloan to step down. ... Read full article

Readers weigh in on whether or not banks should take a stand on gun control, opine on digital banking outages, reflect on banks building more branches in the internet age and more. ... Read full article

Equifax, the credit bureau breached by hackers last year, said the card-payments industry may cut off its access to certain data or impose fines if the company can't prove it's addressed weaknesses. ... Read full article

Wells Fargo's legal and regulatory struggles expanded to previously untarnished businesses Thursday as the company revealed new allegations of improper sales practices. The Federal Reserve vowed to keep unprecedented sanctions in place for a ... Read full article

LendingClub, Marlette and others are looking at additional changes to both their securitization and whole-loan-sale programs that could further broaden their investor bases. ... Read full article

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a request for information Thursday on the bureau’s public reporting of consumer complaints, which has long vexed the financial services industry. ... Read full article

Wells Fargo, which has been told by the Fed that it needs to improve its governance and controls, on Thursday received an important thumbs-up from its outside auditor and also named the four senior directors who will retire next month. ... Read full article

From investor angst to regulatory scrutiny, here's a look at three obstacles that must be addressed before Ocwen Financial can acquire PHH Mortgage. ... Read full article

The interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the agency may allow prudential regulators to take the lead on more supervisory matters to cut down on duplication. ... Read full article

Two civil rights groups in Texas allege that Capital One's TV ads featuring black celebrities encourage minority customers to deposit money and use debit cards, while its branch closings in their neighborhoods cut them off from loans and other ... Read full article

The legislation carves out protections for smaller banks to offer abusive loans to borrowers under the "qualified mortgage" standard, as long as they hold those loans in portfolio. ... Read full article

Democrats used a hearing with Fed Chair Jerome Powell to lay the groundwork for an intraparty debate over the merits of the Senate’s regulatory relief bill. ... Read full article