A service outage on Friday at Fiserv affected multiple banks and crippled at least 60 applications for some Fiserv customers, including Early Warning's peer-to-peer money transfer app Zelle. The issue, while resolved, reiterates the importance of bank redundancies.
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A federal judge said she is inclined to issue a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
March 11
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A new order requires certain non-bank financial companies in certain ZIP codes to report transactions over $200, much lower than the previous $10,000 threshold.
March 11
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Banco San Juan Internacional argues recent comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell raise questions about the central bank's handling of master accounts.
March 11
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New York's top financial regulator Adrienne Harris said the failure of Signature Bank two years ago spurred the agency to change the way it oversees banks, including more scrutiny for those with consistently subpar CAMELS ratings.
March 11
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Security worries have kept many financial institutions from sending payments on TCH's real-time payments network and FedNow. But ABNB Federal Credit Union had other ideas. Here's how its team prepared.
March 11
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
Seven of the 20 top-performing banks with $2 billion to $10 billion of assets last year were based in Texas. But it's not about being bigger.
A service outage on Friday at Fiserv affected multiple banks and crippled at least 60 applications for some Fiserv customers, including Early Warning's peer-to-peer money transfer app Zelle. The issue, while resolved, reiterates the importance of bank redundancies.
Bankers are concerned about stablecoins gaining traction due to the passage of the GENIUS Act, and also continue to sound the alarm about the failure to resolve check fraud disputes, according to the latest quarterly survey from IntraFi.
Pulaski Savings Bank's failure will cost the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund 57.6% of its total assets.
The CEO of First Northwest Bancorp is promising to fight a lawsuit claiming the lender helped a client perpetrate a Ponzi scheme that bilked a hedge fund out of more than $100 million.
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.
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John Buran shares how his New York bank and its small business customers are faring with tariff uncertainty — and how some have quickly changed suppliers and modified business plans — in the latest American Banker podcast.
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Staking activities and stablecoins are two of the possible ways banks could have a role in decentralized finance, said Margaret Butler, head of the financial services practice at the law firm BakerHostetler and Kristiane Koontz, director of Treasury Services and Payments at Zions Bank, in interviews recorded at the Digital Banking Conference in June.
July 1
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Among the resignations are Mark McArdle, who was instrumental in creating the Qualified Mortgage rule, and Operations Chief of Supervision David Bleicken. It is unclear if the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will hire anyone to succeed them.
March 10
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The Trump administration's attack on diversity, equity and inclusion programs raises the question: Will big banks continue their support of minority depository institutions?
March 10
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reversed policies on crypto banking, withdrawing its guidance on custody, stablecoin reserves and risk management requirements.
March 7
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The Trump administration intended to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through a mass workforce reduction, which could be a smoking gun in a court battle with the bureau's union.
March 7
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The multitrillion-dollar global market has opportunities and potential pitfalls for banks.
March 7
