Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said Thursday that a proposal to reimagine bank supervisory practices is meant to empower rather than handcuff supervisors by limiting the scope of their examinations.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said there was a popular "misunderstanding" Thursday regarding who can qualify for a "skinny" master account, noting that only firms with a bank charter would qualify for approval.
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A new research report this week found AI could 'unlock' $370 billion in profits for banks, though they're not yet ready to capture it. But big-bank executives say they are already seeing measurable results from their generative and traditional AI investments.
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Analysts say the fintech must "grow like a fintech, but be profitable like a bank" as its capital base shrinks to its lowest level to date.
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As the emerging form of artificial intelligence impacts payments, pace of payment disputes and the workload will change.
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Jerry Plush had helmed the South Florida-based bank for nearly five years before agreeing to depart this week. News of the leadership change comes little more than a week after Amerant reported a 43% increase in nonperforming assets.
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The Federal Reserve Board finalized changes to its supervisory rating framework, allowing large bank holding companies to be considered "well managed," even with one deficient rating.
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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.
The financial services industry is relying on outdated methods of detecting and fighting fraud. With the assistance of artificial intelligence, criminals are penetrating vulnerable systems. It's time for collective action.
The agreement, if approved by a federal judge, would end litigation over two distinct cybersecurity incidents in 2021 which affected over 2 million customers.
The U.K. bank's "Scam Intelligence" tool uses Google's Gemini to analyze images and texts for red flags, aiming to reduce losses from authorized push payment fraud.
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.
- Rachel Anderika, chief operating officer at Anchorage Digital Bank, sees the Federal Reserve's proposal to give crypto companies limited access to its payment rails as "a really great signal to the market."Sponsored by IntraFi
- Amanda Fischer, is policy director and chief operating officer at Better Markets and former chief of staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission has some concerns about stablecoins.Sponsored by IntraFi
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A regulatory filing Wednesday sheds more light on how the megamerger came together. It also details the compensation arrangements for Comerica CEO Curtis Farmer, who will become Fifth Third's vice chair.
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The credit union fintech and core provider partnered to launch three new agentic AI-powered tools for credit unions that work with existing systems.
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At its first investor day in a decade and a half, the nation's second-largest bank pegged its guidance for return on tangible common equity at a slightly higher level than what it reported last quarter. Not all investors were impressed.
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Voters across the country swung hard to the left in yesterday's off-cycle elections, showing an acute interest on affordability issues ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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The megabank is cooperating with a government request for information related to how it decides which customers to bank. It is the second large U.S. bank — along with Bank of America — to disclose such a probe.
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