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Huntington, Capital One and Citi are tops with consumers, but overall satisfaction scores have declined as users have been overwhelmed by the constant rollout of new features. ... Read full article

The president says he’ll nominate Judy Shelton, Christopher Waller for Fed; the bank reportedly in talks to sell parts of its “once prized” equities business. ... Read full article

Christopher Waller is a conventional choice drawn from within the Fed’s own ranks. Judy Shelton has spent decades outside mainstream economics. But both are expected to echo the president’s call for lowering interest rates. ... Read full article

What Facebook really needs is another heavyweight like Amazon or Google to help spur cryptocurrency competition. ... Read full article

As policymakers mull ways to update the 42-year-old Community Reinvestment Act, economists at the San Francisco Fed have put forth a novel proposal. ... Read full article

New York Attorney General Letitia James said there is “no basis to believe” that the overdraft rule has harmed small banks and credits unions. ... Read full article

Alexander Lopatine, who founded Nymbus and has joined Mbanq, says alternative providers are gaining the confidence of more banks. However, questions remain about their staying power in the fight with traditional vendors. ... Read full article

The CFPB did not file any fair-lending enforcement actions in the 2018 fiscal year and did not refer any Equal Credit Opportunity Act violations to the Department of Justice. ... Read full article

Theresa LaPlaca, one of four new directors at the company, ran an office Wells formed to address issues tied to its sales and reporting practices. ... Read full article

The rush to hold hearings in both the House and the Senate reflects broad skepticism across the political spectrum about the social network's plan to develop an alternative payment system. ... Read full article

With some adjustments, the loan-loss accounting standard can be more secure and workable for banks. ... Read full article

A California man says the company sent his medical information to a friend of his; the Big Four's monopoly may be coming to an end as Citi and others move in. ... Read full article

The technology has become controversial for its potential for bias. Notre Dame professor Kevin Bowyer explains what his studies of this issue have found. ... Read full article

Facebook’s plan to launch a cryptocurrency has raised concerns that state banking regulators may not be equipped to oversee large, international companies. ... Read full article

Other banks say they need to add branches to attract more deposits, but Capital One is sticking to its strategy of aggressively closing them and gathering the bulk of new deposits online. ... Read full article

The ban, which came to light Monday, will remain in effect until either the final disposition of Stephen Calk’s court case or until it is terminated by Comptroller Joseph Otting. ... Read full article

The agreement is expected to solidify a lending partnership whose status had been in doubt for more than a year. But it raised as many questions as it answered. ... Read full article

Freddie Mac CEO Donald Layton has joined the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies as a senior industry fellow focused on reform of the government-sponsored enterprises. ... Read full article