The federal government has largely stepped back from enforcing antidiscrimination laws in lending and housing. Under a recently passed bill, regulators in the nation's most populous state would seek to fill the void.
The bank's strategy for getting from experimentation to measurable ROI is a model others should consider.
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Block added 30,000 sellers to what it calls "Neighborhoods," a proprietary distribution network that connects Cash App users with Square sellers. It is a key initiative Block CEO Jack Dorsey first outlined in 2024 as a way to meld the company's then-separate business lines to achieve network effects.
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dLocal, whose clients include Amazon and Uber, is trying to build a global transaction network amid a heightened awareness of "payments sovereignty." Yang Yang Zhang, dLocal's new APAC head, spoke with American Banker about how the firm is managing the pressure.
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The robots, which have the dexterity of a human arm and can open envelopes, remove staples, and scan documents, are being used in its Chicago lockbox and will eventually be deployed in its six other lockbox locations across the U.S.
Florida, Georgia, Texas and Arizona are all states where U.S. Bank, which operates mainly in the Midwest and the West, sees growth opportunities.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Wednesday that inflation expectations remain well anchored, suggesting a "wait-and-see" approach for monetary policy.
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There wasn't just one recipe for landing among the top-performing banks with $50 billion or more in assets. There were two — or, in some cases, a mix of both.
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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.
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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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Settlement services, whose debt-reduction models require advising borrowers to default on their loans, wreak havoc on their customers' credit ratings, often leaving them worse off than they were before.
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The claim that community bankers are somehow being manipulated into supporting changes to the CLARITY Act that would benefit big banks is wrong. The threat to deposits from stablecoin yield is real and dangerous.
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As banks integrate AI into their systems, they are becoming accountable for decision-making architectures that they did not design and have no real insight into. That means they need to ask their vendors some hard questions.
There's been an onslaught of nonbank financial technology company charter applications and approvals already this year.
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RIAs who work with Charles Schwab have long worried Schwab competes with them for business. Could Vanguard's pending purchase of Altruist put Altruist RIAs in the same position?
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Some midsize firms joined three giants of the industry in surpassing their peers among independent brokerages, in terms of the percentage increase in their average payouts per financial advisor last year.
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The proposed investment rules for Section 530A accounts, also known as Trump accounts, limit choices, and advisors say that could make decisions easier.
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Bank of America Securities research shows this sector has had its best year since at least 2017, but some trends in the market point to a need for caution.
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If Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's comments lack substance on inflation in the market's opinion, it is likely to drive mortgage rates even higher, NerdWallet warned.
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Non-QM securitizations hit $78B as lenders ease guidelines to capture unserved borrower demand, even as total impairments rise for the 10th time in 13 months to 6.27%.
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People on Kalshi and Polymarket tend to be younger, tend to be poorer, and tend to lose money on the sites, which is how most gambling works.
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Fincen says 103 Iranian front companies moved $1.8 billion through the Egyptian bank's Emirati branches. The proposal would touch every U.S. correspondent bank.
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The AI firm Jump used notetaker data to analyze thousands of discussions between advisors and clients. The results show advisors aren't as good at keeping their mouths shut as many think.
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Erin Piacenti, 32, was a vice president at Bank of America and the mother of a five-month-old baby. On her way home from work, she was stabbed to death in what New York police called a "random and unprovoked attack."
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After his firm agreed to one of the most impactful deals in wealth management of 2026, Altruist CEO Jason Wenk sat down with FP to discuss the negotiations, his firm's strategy and the new tool he says can build higher-quality plans in much less time.
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