OFG Bancorp, the parent company of Oriental Bank, has steadily climbed American Banker's rankings of the nation's top-performing banks. Here's how the Puerto Rican bank did it.
Most Americans have been at least targeted by fraudsters, and as AI technology gets better the frauds are going to be harder to stop.
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Jennifer Barker, the bank's global head of payments & trade and depository receipts, says people are more worried about the outcome than how transactions occur. That creates a greater bank role for intelligent routing or payment facilitation, where customers automatically get the best option with little work on the front end.
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As banks consider how to expand relationships by selling new uses for artificial intelligence, getting clients to trust the innovation is a major challenge.
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The stablecoin technology firm and about two dozen companies have joined to standardize authorization and other risk management for agentic commerce.
Litigation involving Amalgamated Bank highlights the risks that banks may face when highly placed employees leave their jobs on bad terms.
A Federal Reserve enforcement action against Germany's largest bank was the last of the consent orders remaining from the Obama-era violations. Between 2007 and 2013, foreign exchange traders from six banks conspired to manipulate interest rates.
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United Bank and Five Points Bank, both ranked among the top-performing banks by Capital Performance Group, said they have stayed in the mortgage business because they see it as a way to build strong relationships in the communities they serve.
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In American Banker's ranking of banks with the strongest metrics, here is this year's list in the $10-$50 billion range, based on data from Capital Performance Group.
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A recipe of no securities, mostly adjustable-rate loans and a cheap rural deposit base made the Texas bank the top performer in the $2 billion-$10 billion asset class.
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In a shifting regulatory environment, CCOs must move from a posture of constraint toward one of enablement, becoming entrepreneurial strategic leaders.
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The Trump administration's refusal to release funds appropriated by Congress for community development financial institutions is actively damaging programs that serve low-income Americans.
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Bankers in the U.S. can learn a few things from watching the rollout of the European Union's new AI Act. Specifically, they should notice the gaping hole where rules about identity verification ought to be.
There's been an onslaught of nonbank financial technology company charter applications and approvals already this year.
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A new guide from the CFP Board is meant to help advisors through offering 401(k) rollover recommendations, which can be a tricky area for compliance.
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Two experts in mergers and M&A sales explained how and why RIA owners need to clean up their data, get a formal valuation and figure out other technical questions before they make a succession deal.
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With its Estimated Value Index, the valuation expert FP Transitions seeks to give RIA owners a leg-up in knowing just what their firms can most likely fetch in a sale.
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After losing money on production in most quarters between 2022 and 2024, independent mortgage bankers have achieved five consecutive quarters in the black.
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So far, annual home lending growth is on track to slow, but not stop, with some positive developments surfacing amid broader challenges.
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A 10-state coalition is asking a federal court to put a halt to the OCC's rules which pre-empt laws on banks paying interest on mortgage escrow deposits.
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Industry consultants recommend steps RIAs in Schwab's referral network can take if they're worried about competition for clients.
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As analysts raise concerns that AI could undermine the economics of generous transition deals, executives at Ameriprise, Stifel and Raymond James wonder if firms are paying too much to recruit advisors.
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Just two weeks after releasing its planned schedule for buybacks this quarter, the Treasury Department on Wednesday said it's "increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations" for securities dated from the 10-year to the 30-year sector.
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Neuberger Berman launched a new junk-bond fund using tokenized securities, a process that has been the focus of crypto firm Securitize for more than a decade.
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The president has initiated a for-cause process to remove the Federal Reserve Board governor from office, something only one president has successfully done before. But that century-old precedent may not offer Trump much useful guidance in his quest.
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