When it was announced on June 25 that First Financial Bancorp, a Cincinnati-based holding company for First Financial Bank, had acquired Westfield Bank, it was a sign of First Financial's desire to ...

Standard FDIC and NCUA insurance covers up to $250,000 of deposits and interest earned on those deposits. Online-only banks also provide FDIC insurance, but fintech companies aren't part of the FDIC ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Anti-money laundering is often mistaken as a secondary consideration to fraud in the insurance sector when it comes to financial crime. The pervasive view is that insurance companies are less likely ...