Banking Dive takes a look at several trend areas — from M&A to regulation — to give its best guess on developments to come this year. But as observers in the ESG sector will tell it, change has been rapid and thorough.

Here’s how the central bank’s interest rate stance influences car loans, credit cards, mortgages, savings and student loans.

The recent Los Angeles wildfires are only the latest reminder that banks need to steel themselves against climate change both in their portfolios and in their own businesses.

The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation picked up in December, pushing the central bank's goal of a 2% annual rate farther into the distance.

Polen Capital, an investment management company, released its “Polen US SMID Company Growth Strategy” fourth-quarter 2024 investor letter.

One great habit to fall into is tracking your spending with a budget. In 2024, a good 90% of Americans were following a budget, according to Debt.com, and 89% say that budgeting has helped them get out or stay out of debt. So if budgeting isn’t something you do, you may want to change your ways.

The relative calm in the markets may not survive upheaval in the A.I. sector and a deluge of disruptive Trump policies, our columnist says.

Starting in the early 2000s, Taiwan started to run large current account surpluses of 5- 7 per cent of GDP. That’s big. At the time it was only really dwarfed by China. And while China’s surplus fell after the global financial crisis, Taiwan’s surplus actually expanded. It reached double-digits in 2014, and has generally kept climbing ever since.

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman is widely seen as the president's most likely choice for vice chair for supervision, a position soon to be vacated by Michael Barr. But while Bowman is the administration's most straightforward option,

Nonetheless, already there is a clash with President Trump, who believes interest rates are “far too high." On his Truth Social platform, Trump went on the attack: Because Jay Powell and the Fed failed to stop the problem they created with Inflation,

The chaos and confusion spurred by this week's order freezing federal funding may influence how different parts of the housing market operate.