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Price levels "remained highly elevated," but nine districts reported some degree of moderation in their rate of increase, the report showed. The price of food, rent, utilities and hospitality services, in particular, rose substantially across all 12 Fed districts.

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey criticized the degree of "opacity" surrounding some community benefit agreements, or written deals between banks and community groups ahead of a merger that often involve billions of dollars of commitments.

The total value of transactions flowing through Early Warning Service's peer-to-peer payments service rose nearly 30% during the second quarter, as more consumers used Zelle to pay recurring expenses.

Frustrations with gatekeeping, a lack of diversity and the way home appraisal is overseen are spurring many practitioners to call for an overhaul of the industry's governance structure.

Bank of America is facing off in court with the bond insurer Ambac Financial Group in a $2.7 billion case that's one of its last legal hangovers from the subprime crisis.

A "Big 3" credit bureau is testing a direct data feed into a FICO score, and a top multifamily mortgage lender signed a multiyear contract with a high-profile fintech platform.

The venture-backed fintech also rolled out an option that allows the borrower to "undercollateralize" a property using the USDC stablecoin, pledged at 40% of the value.

Home values dropped for the first time in 31 months between June and July but this is obscured by 14.5% year-over-year appreciation.

Manhattan home sales under $1 million sagged well below their pre-pandemic levels this summer, as rising interest rates cut into buyers' purchasing power and sidelined some potential consumers. 

The operational melding of highly regulated banks and less-regulated fintechs led acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu to warn of the potential for another financial crisis.