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The latest generation of anti-money-laundering software uses agentic AI to help alleviate AML alert fatigue. Experts say this use of the technology is promising, though they offer some caveats.

  • Investors would rather pay commissions for the financial advice they receive than a fee based on assets under management, according to Cerulli Associates.

  • RBC Wealth Management, the unit of Royal Bank of Canada of Toronto that oversees almost $200 billion for more than 350,000 households, won the highest satisfaction ranking in a survey of full-service investment firms' customers, J.D. Power & Associates said.

  • A new wave of dot-coms is turning heads and building paper wealth for tech company workers. Unlike many who suffered in the crash of 2000, "dot-com 2.0" option holders are apt to assume they're riding a bubble — and they're looking for help to make the most of their unrealized riches.

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Bangladesh's central bank has suggested the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had a "major lapse" in allowing hackers to transfer $101 million in transactions that it later flagged as suspicious, according to an internal document seen by Bloomberg.

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The planned Bay State deal comes two months after the Minneapolis-based Thrivent said it plans to merge a credit union it controls into a new industrial bank.

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The Federal Open Market Committee voted to reduce interest rates by 25 basis points Wednesday, but the emergence of dissents on the committee makes the chance of another quarter-point cut in December less certain.

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American Banker's 2025 Small Business Banking conference yielded lessons about the need for speed, simplicity and safety in small-business lending. Other key takeaways included the significance of digital payment options and the importance of continuing to process SBA loan requests during the government shutdown.