Last year highlighted the risks for banks in lending to nondepository financial institutions. A new approach by Trump-era regulators could change the playing field.
Personal financial management tools have long relied on financial data aggregation. Now, aggregators are hoping traditional lenders will take a cue from alternative lenders and use the technology to quicken their underwriting decisions.
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Cash App's parent company Block failed to investigate fraud and unauthorized transactions, and refused to refund customers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.
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The bank, which owns a minority stake in Viva Wallet, can take over the company in June if its valuation falls before a certain level — which has resulted in a legal dispute with Haris Karonis, the fintech's owner. That and more in American Banker's weekly global payments roundup.
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Digital transaction risk draws attention to dynamic CVVs for cards.
Like many financial companies, the brokerage wants to go where customers are. Since that means communicating with them via a third-party platform, it is working through privacy and security issues.
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Deutsche Bank had a lot to contend with last year — not that Fiona Bassett let that hamper her.
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Fresh off helping lead TIAA's $2.5 billion purchase of Jacksonville, Fla.-based EverBank, Kathie Andrade took on another ambitious project this year.
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Politics has been on just about everyone's mind, but it is also a minefield topic that many people in business were just as happy to avoid. Not Paula Polito and her team at UBS.
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From finding new efficiencies to redefining the customer experience; fintechs are permanently changing financial services. But what does the actual acquisition process look like?
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The coronavirus pandemic has turned every industry on its head. For lending, it exposed the need for modernized, fully digital platforms.
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Banks, lenders, and fintechs have been on a path toward digitizing the mortgage process from end-to-end — long before the term coronavirus entered our daily lexicon. How has the pandemic affected progress?
The digital banking software provider recently received $160 million in funding and hopes to grow its bank client list as it upgrades product offerings.
Kevin Fromer, who has headed the Financial Services Forum since 2017, announced his departure Monday. Fromer transformed the Financial Services Forum to advance the interests of the largest U.S. banks.
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It won't be easy, but implementing a common-sense overhaul of how we measure banks' liquidity would help avoid the kind of crisis we experienced in 2023.
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Many deposits classified as brokered are actually very "sticky." Recognizing that would go a long way toward improving banks' stability.
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An investor in early stage fintech startups weighs in on the breakthrough technologies that will transform the relationships between banks and fintechs.
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CodeBoxx Academy is filling a void for banks and other companies that desperately need AI experts. Peret's time behind bars uniquely informed how he runs the school, he says.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will face an existential crisis in 2026 between the Trump administration's efforts to shut down the agency and the employee union and consumer advocates who want to stop them.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has made big changes in 2025, including cutting headcount, walking back Biden-era rules and guidance and resetting the agency's approach to emerging technologies and crypto.
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The Treasury Department issued guidance on how merchants can round cash transactions to the nearest nickel. Banks and retailers have been calling for more clarity from the government amid a penny shortage that stems from the Trump administration's abrupt decision to halt production of the one-cent coins.
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The bank regulator is proposing to strengthen national preemption in the wake of conflicting decisions in related court cases.
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The card network and bank technology seller partnered to expand AI protocols, while British payment companies face tougher fee disclosures but looser rules for contactless transactions. That and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.
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The merger with Heritage Financial joins two commercially focused banks, creating a $21.7 billion-asset institution with a presence in all of the Golden State's major markets.
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