Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group, the Brick City is one of 10 American cities to be included in the program.

The Cherry Hill-based bank has agreed to pay $70 million to settle several claims consolidated in federal court accusing the company of charging customers excessive fees for overdrawn accounts.

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, “the BEC scam continues to grow, evolve, and target businesses of all sizes. Since January 2015, there has been a 1,300 percent increase in identified exposed losses, now totaling over $3 billion.” In 2018, alone, the IC3 received 20,373 BEC and E-mail Account Compromise complaints with adjusted losses of more than $1.2 billion.

Poverty and mistrust bar many from banks. The New Jersey Legislature is looking into the issue with bills to establish an Unbanked and Underbanked Consumers Study Commission — but in the meantime, some financial institutions are trying to address the problem on their own.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the strategy some New Jersey-based financial institutions are taking when it comes to financial technology companies, which have been painted as a high-tech threat to traditional banking services.

Revenue for the first five months of 2019 has grown 34.9 percent, to $179.4 million, compared with $116.9 million generated during the first five months of 2018.

“What does legacy mean to you?” opens a new film produced through a partnership with media conglomerate Urban One, and underwritten by Newark-based Prudential Financial Inc., which seeks to expose black millennials, particularly women, with a starting point to gaining financial wellness and freedom.

Announced Friday, the deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2019.