Visa launched its Stablecoin Advisory Practice, a value-added service from its consultancy arm Visa Consulting & Analytics, to help financial institutions, fintechs and merchants deploy stablecoin technology.
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New data shows a 21% jump in fraud attempts during Thanksgiving week, with automated bots and credential stuffing leading the charge.
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GBank will serve as the bank partner for a cashless slot machine betting app that is looking to expand nationwide after getting a key regulatory approval in Nevada.
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Visa launched its Stablecoin Advisory Practice, a value-added service from its consultancy arm Visa Consulting & Analytics, to help financial institutions, fintechs and merchants deploy stablecoin technology.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Stephen Miran said higher goods prices could be the trade-off for bolstering national security and addressing geo-economic risks.
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The small Missouri community bank partnered with embedded banking provider Treasury Prime to connect with fintechs and signed on its first sponsoree earlier this year.
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The Los Angeles-based subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada is elbowing into fast-growing North Carolina and South Carolina with a strategy focused on middle market banking.
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Pinnacle and Peapack-Gladstone have sought to preserve their corporate cultures during periods of major change.
Banks with more than $10 billion of assets made up 12% of American Banker's 2025 Best Banks to Work For list.
Of the 90 honorees on American Banker's 2025 Best Banks to Work For list, 28 had between $3 billion and $10 billion of assets.
BNY's Carolyn Weinberg believes blockchain technology could be the key to an always-on operating system for the New York-based custody bank.
Speakers at the Most Powerful Women in Banking conference Tuesday shared several scenarios in which banks will benefit from dollar-pegged cryptocurrency.
At American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking Conference in New York City, former Most Powerful Women in Banking honorees said to build skills that you can take with you outside of a big bank, and that banks should reward risk-taking and building over incremental change.
Some customers reportedly complained about getting locked out of their accounts after signing up for the bank's new Strata Elite credit card. "We feel like we have done the right thing for all of our good customers," Pam Habner, Citi's head of U.S. branded cards, said Tuesday.
The 23rd annual ranking of women leaders in the banking industry.
Public sector banking doesn't have a line on Citi's income statement. But Monaco's global influence is threaded throughout the bank's work with government finance ministries, central banks and other sovereign entities.
Our annual list of the 25 top leaders in finance include three newcomers this year.
Our annual ranking of women in banking and finance includes five community bank CEOs.
Each year, American Banker chooses five teams that embody the spirit of collaboration and illustrate how teamwork can have a substantial impact on a bank's top and bottom lines.
For the first time, this list of banking's rising stars aged 40 and younger is presented in ranked order, highlighting the depth and performance of the industry's top talent.
Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.
Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
The 5-year-old experiment of tying executive compensation to achieving diversity goals appears to be ending. The abrupt shift comes amid the Trump administration's crackdown on DEI.
The CEOs of smaller regional banks received fatter bonuses last year than their big-bank counterparts, possibly thanks to low performance expectations at the smaller banks after the 2023 banking crisis.
The OCC's approval of SmartBiz buying a bank opens the door to other fintech M&A deals for accessing bank charters, which can help a fintech stay in business.
The 10 winning innovations span categories from AI and payments to risk and compliance. An overall winner will be announced at American Banker's Digital Banking event on June 2.
The Brazilian neobank expanded its bank accounts for minors with new features in 2024 by adding high-yield savings "boxes" and expanding parental controls.
As real-time payments become more common, UBB's partnership with fintech Pidgin offers a roadmap for smaller banks to stay relevant.
As the class action lawsuit settlement industry became overwhelmed with fraud, a bank and a fraud scoring company teamed up to fight back.
Part of the growing "phishing-as-a-service" economy, the Spiderman kit offers novice hackers sophisticated tools to target customers of major EU institutions.
Mary Carole McDonnell allegedly posed as a McDonnell-Douglas heiress to secure loans. The FBI believes she is currently hiding in Dubai.
While banks welcome the "whole-of-government" approach that led the effort, private sector takedowns remain difficult without federal warrants.
Most Influential Women in Payments honorees say the dramatic expansion in technology presents new opportunities and challenges as employers evolve away from traditional business models.
Honorees from American Banker's Most Influential Women in Payments discuss spotting tangible uses for innovation, rather than buying into hype.
Each year, American Banker recognizes the women who are advancing the payments industry in banking, retail, acquiring, processing and more.

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Former Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig has written a book called The Mismeasurement of America that lays out the shortcomings of the standard economic data that U.S. government and businesses use to make decisions, and how this data obscures the truth about how low-income Americans are actually faring.
December 2 - The co-founder of Fintech Sandbox says fintech entrepreneurs will figure out how to help Americans struggling with economic stressors.Sponsored by IntraFi
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A new report from the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board found that nonbank financial institutions grew considerably faster than banks in 2024 and now control more than half of the world's financial assets.
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Rohit Chopra is named senior advisor to the Democratic Attorneys General Association's working group on consumer protection and affordability; Flagstar Bank adds additional wealth-planning capabilities to its private banking division; Chime promotes three members of its executive leadership team; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Schmid and Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said in statements Friday that their dissents from this week's interest rate decision were spurred by inflation concerns and a lack of sufficient economic data.
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Leading Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee sent a letter to Chair Tim Scott, R-S.C., pointing out the as-yet unsatisfied legal requirement for prudential regulators to appear in Congress semiannually.
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Treasury Secretary Bessent said FSOC is readjusting its approach to avoid stifling growth in moves with implications for capital, technology and mortgages.
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