The payments giant is counting on the FIFA World Cup this summer for windfalls in its consumer and commercial businesses. Long-term, agentic commerce is creating a whole new ecosystem to which Visa can attach itself, Visa CEO Ryan McInerney said on a call with analysts.
Celtic Bank is the latest large Small Business Administration lender to turn to an AI origination platform for smaller-dollar loans. Live Oak Bank, which has been piloting the same platform, says it's poised for big growth in the same segment.
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While stablecoins aren't widely used for payments, banks still have a role to play in leading the market.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued an interim final rule Friday to clarify banks' leeway to charge interchange fees, explicitly blocking the applicability of a law passed in Illinois that would ban charging interchange fees on taxes and tips that goes into effect in July.
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American Banker's BNPL Tradeoff Survey finds risk and regulatory fears are leading many banks and credit unions to hold off on offering the lending product.
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A well-planned retirement can go awry when clients overspend. Here's how financial advisors can rein them in.
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A California man's complaint alleges that Morgan Stanley's website enabled tracking tech from Google and Microsoft to collect web visitors' browsing data for targeted online ads.
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Adam Cox led the wealth management division of a regional bank for 10 years. His lack of an ownership stake in the business he'd spent so much time building eventually drove him to seek independence.
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Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Craig Trainor encouraged the real estate industry to reconsider advice received from DEI experts.
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A proposed update to Basel III capital rules from federal banking regulators does not specifically include mortgage insurance as a factor in determining the risk weight for a mortgage loan held on a bank's balance sheet. Industry experts say it should.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association is recommending the option for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac borrowers with strong credit with a tri-merge for others. Here's why.
The largest banks have increased their venture capital investments in AI startups by 21% over the past two years. They're looking to "co-shape" technology so that it meets their needs.
For the Denver-based parent company of Sunflower Bank, the first quarter of 2026 was not entirely sunny. Loans grew dramatically, but so did charge-offs, with the lender charging off two credits worth more than $10 million.
The Cleveland-based regional bank plans to acquire Clearwater UK, a middle-market investment banking advisory firm. The transaction marks Key's first entry into the Western European market.
Kevin Warsh's nomination to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve passed through the Senate Banking committee in a party-line vote.
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Community banks' primary objection to the Main Street Depositor Protection Act appears to be that one provision of it would give credit union customers the same level of deposit protection as bank customers.
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Banks have a narrow window to shape how agent identity verification works before transaction volumes force ad hoc approaches that will be harder to standardize later.
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Presumptive Fed Chair Warsh isn't a fan of jawboning, but that is actually, exactly how the central bank gets its point across.
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Blue Owl Capital faces fresh scrutiny from investors and Wall Street analysts with the release of its first-quarter earnings.
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The cryptocurrency company has collaborated with payment tech firm Nium to enable conversions to traditional currency, a play to boost use of the digital assets for payments and diversify Coinbase's revenue sources.
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Fintech firm IntraFi's most recent quarterly survey of bank executives showed rising pessimism among bankers related to "instability in Washington," as well as growing concerns about technology-enabled fraud.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is poised to finalize a contentious rule mandating the collection of demographic data on small-business borrowers, with the aim of ensuring equal access to credit for women and minority owners.
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The all-cash, 750 million euro deal to buy Talon.One marks a notable shift from the fintech's M&A strategy that has historically favored build versus buy.
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