Simon Randall is the CEO and co-founder of Pimloc, an AI company changing how global organizations can responsibly manage video content while maintaining public trust. Before Pimloc, he led the OMG Life team to develop and launch the world's first intelligent wearable camera and its associated technology platform licensing, before spinning out the visual classification side of the business to create Pimloc in 2017. He previously worked for a range of global businesses in London, Sydney and Istanbul, bringing with him a wealth of consumer tech experience including 12 successful years at Nokia across go-to-market, marketing, business strategy, insight and planning, global online sales, global performance marketing and product development areas. Prior to Nokia, he worked in a range of creative hot-houses and strategic consultancies across the beverages, banking and tech sectors.
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The Coalition for Financial Ecosystem Standards, a fintech group co-founded by Sima Gandhi, is publishing guidelines for how banks and others can assess them.
March 11 -
Firms such as Circle, Binance and Coinbase say new bipartisan legislation will attract banks to the market, providing a boost for mainstream payments.
March 11 -
Five Star Bank's parent company denied wrongdoing but said the agreement spares it the uncertainty and expense that might have resulted from a trial.
March 10 -
In a packed courtroom, a federal judge parsed whether the Trump administration's aggressive actions to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are part of a "normal" transition of power or would impede its statutorily required functions.
March 10 -
In a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the Fed to impose penalties and sanctions on leaders of the failed bank.
March 10 -
New research on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and other regional banks in 2023 points to cyclicality of venture capital and the volatility of crypto as bigger factors than uninsured deposits or unrealized losses.
March 10 -
A joint venture between the military-focused Palantir and investment conglomerate TWG will sell cybersecurity protection to financial institutions that are wary about the safety of artificial intelligence.
March 10
Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.
Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
The man who blew the whistle over the incident says the bank fired him in retaliation for reporting what he called a "significant security breach."
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors says the OCC's 2011 preemption rules are out of step with Supreme Court rulings and unfairly disadvantage the state banking system.
Ending the separation of banking and commerce would open the door to dangerous concentrations of power and influence, and would threaten financial and economic stability as well as access to credit for consumers and Main Street businesses.
Simon Randall is the CEO and co-founder of Pimloc, an AI company changing how global organizations can responsibly manage video content while maintaining public trust. Before Pimloc, he led the OMG Life team to develop and launch the world's first intelligent wearable camera and its associated technology platform licensing, before spinning out the visual classification side of the business to create Pimloc in 2017. He previously worked for a range of global businesses in London, Sydney and Istanbul, bringing with him a wealth of consumer tech experience including 12 successful years at Nokia across go-to-market, marketing, business strategy, insight and planning, global online sales, global performance marketing and product development areas. Prior to Nokia, he worked in a range of creative hot-houses and strategic consultancies across the beverages, banking and tech sectors.
The man who blew the whistle over the incident says the bank fired him in retaliation for reporting what he called a "significant security breach."
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors says the OCC's 2011 preemption rules are out of step with Supreme Court rulings and unfairly disadvantage the state banking system.
Ending the separation of banking and commerce would open the door to dangerous concentrations of power and influence, and would threaten financial and economic stability as well as access to credit for consumers and Main Street businesses.
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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The banks have invested in gen AI and embedded finance, respectively.
August 12 -
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.
July 15
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Gesa Credit Union publicly rolled out ValorFI Heroes, which generates charity donations through everyday debit card transactions.
March 7 -
Employers added 151,000 employees in February and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.1%. The reading bolsters the Federal Reserve's argument to hold rates steady amid economic uncertainty.
March 7 -
Six proposals involving the purchase of a bank were terminated or rejected in 2024.
March 7 -
Banks have embraced the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s swift reversals on a range of topics, but the regulatory whiplash is complicating long-term business planning.
March 7 -
Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said the Founding Fathers supported independent money management and undoing it now would be a mistake.
March 6