The recently announced consortium of crypto companies behind OpenUSD, a new dollar-denominated stablecoin, will have to demonstrate that it can build partnerships with banks and intermediaries before it can challenge USDC and Tether.

Investors in a panic about private credit valuations need to draw a distinction between funds backing AI-threatened software companies and those whose collateral includes the hard assets of frontier AI companies themselves.

As written, new capital standards for U.S. banks fail to account for the additional risk posed by many home loan clients who obtain second mortgages. Fixing the problem will significantly reduce the rule's benefit to banks.

FINRA's annual snapshot shows how the wealth industry is changing, from key business metrics and marketing trends to shifts in registration and a shrinking branch footprint.

As the SEC pushes to widen access to private equity, private credit and other alternative investments, Morgan Stanley and Envestnet are among firms that already have funds no longer aimed exclusively at "accredited investors."

An albeit smaller sample of financial advisors participating in FP's Compensation Survey nevertheless reflected the industry-wide trend around gender pay gaps.

Economists at the government-sponsored enterprise have been lowering their single-family origination volume estimates for several months.

Industry economists and analysts were predicting single digit quarter-to-quarter gains, but a trio of large banks had an over 30% rise in mortgage volume.

Michael Burry, a GSE investor and early predictor of the Great Financial Crisis, is eyeing the senior preferred liquidation preference and a 2028 deadline.