The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are officially open to comments on their reform package for the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio.
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Acquiring Country Club Bank would give Omaha-based FNBO 30 branches and nearly $3 billion of deposits in one of the Midwest's biggest markets.
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Vectra Bank Colorado President Bruce Alexander is retiring after 25 years with the bank; Unilever Federal Credit Union in New Jersey was shut down by NCUA; Vista Bank hired Bob Mahalik in preparation for Texas bank M&A; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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Truist, Texas Capital and Citizens Financial are among the banks that will be forced to address shareholder dissatisfaction over executive pay.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy grew 177,000 jobs in April, beating expectations and giving the Federal Reserve little reason to adjust interest rates in the near term.
May 2
The Florida man admitted to opening over 100 fake TD Bank accounts in exchange for bribes, leading to $72,000 in fraud losses at the bank.
The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are officially open to comments on their reform package for the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio.
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.
Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
Paul Mattox is a CPA and owner of the firm
The Senate Banking Committee is now proposing to cut the cap by which the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can request funds from the Federal Reserve to 6.5% of the Federal Reserve's operating budget after its opening bid of 0% was rejected by the Senate parliamentarian.
While consumer distress in auto and personal loans also picked up, the pace of growth among mortgages was atypical, Vantagescore's monthly credit gauge said.
The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are officially open to comments on their reform package for the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio.
Paul Mattox is a CPA and owner of the firm
The Senate Banking Committee is now proposing to cut the cap by which the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can request funds from the Federal Reserve to 6.5% of the Federal Reserve's operating budget after its opening bid of 0% was rejected by the Senate parliamentarian.
While consumer distress in auto and personal loans also picked up, the pace of growth among mortgages was atypical, Vantagescore's monthly credit gauge said.
Alan Childs pleaded guilty to using straw borrowers and falsified loan records to help a timber businessman secure millions in fraudulent loans.
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.
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.

- Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says the Trump administration seems intent on shutting the agency down, even though it has a legal mandate to exist.Sponsored by IntraFi
- Crypto-as-a-service, stablecoins and tokenized deposits all present opportunities for banks, according to Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital.Sponsored by IntraFi
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In a recent executive order, President Trump tried to wipe out a legal concept used to root out discrimination. But banks, worried about what will happen the next time a Democrat is in the White House, may be reluctant to change their policies.
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A new survey conducted by IntraFi found that nearly three-quarters of bank executives say a recession is here or imminent, and tariffs now rank among their top three economic concerns.
May 1 -
A budget bill passed by the House Financial Services Committee would eliminate the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and cap the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's budget at roughly $249 million.
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PayPal and Circle are among the companies pushing the rapidly growing payment-friendly cryptocurrency as a catalyst to use other services.
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As the banking-as-a-service model has evolved over the last decade amid widespread consent orders and BaaS partnership failures, the number of sponsor banks has dwindled, leaving fintechs to compete for the business of those that remain.
April 30