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.
Roughly 28% of Swift's correspondent bank users have signed up for the cooperative's KYC Registry, defying early skepticism about financial institutions' willingness to share information.
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Samsung has launched the Galaxy Ring, a wearable device that might support Samsung Pay, while Amazon has received a payment aggregator license in India.
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Will AI erase jobs? How can you jumpstart a stagnant career? And what's the latest with real-time transaction processing? The industry's top executives will gather on March 27 and 28 in Hollywood, Florida, to dive into these issues and many others.
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Legal and accounting firms accustomed to accepting payments online during the pandemic are moving back to accepting in-person payments, with a modern twist.
A near-collapse of the global software vulnerability database exposed critical weaknesses that could leave banks unable to track cyber threats.
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More and more pension plans are exiting their domestic equity commitments in favor of long-duration bond vehicles to back up their liability needs, plan sponsors said in a new study.
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While regulation and nonbank competition are spooking some banks, others believe low funding costs and the right relationships can help them succeed.
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Mark Calabria said he wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to take preliminary steps by Jan. 1 toward exiting conservatorship.
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From data analytics to focusing on a service culture and more, here's a look at how technology is radically remaking lending.
Royal Bank of Canada reorganizes its executive leadership ranks; pending startup BankMiami gets approval from Florida's Office of Financial Regulation; Rize Credit Union's Julio Jimenez-Wenz joins Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs; and more.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., has filed a Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule barring medical debt from credit reports.
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The board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is required by law to have a member with state bank supervisory experience. That perspective has been absent for too long.
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An appeals court ruling that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding source is unconstitutional is faulty. Upholding it would devastate the financial services industry.
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Refining internal processes and reassessing daily workflows is more important than ever at a time when bankers are frequently asked to do more with less.
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Zelle's parent Early Warning Services said Friday it was planning to take its peer-to-peer payments network international through a new stablecoin initiative. It says the details will come later.
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Nicolet Bankshares has agreed to buy MidWestOne Financial in an $864 million, all-stock deal. The acquisition will move the Wisconsin-based buyer into Iowa and the Twin Cities, while also allowing it to vault past a key regulatory threshold.
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A think tank report details setbacks in U.S. cyber strategy, from shuttered partnerships and staff cuts to the expiration of key info-sharing laws.
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Needham and Provident banks received all regulatory approvals and merge date; JPMorganChase hired veteran tech dealmaker Kevin Brunner from Bank of America; RBC Capital Markets will expand its presence in the equity derivatives market with two senior hires from UBS; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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The Federal Reserve Friday issued a set of proposed changes to its stress testing program for the largest banks that would disclose the central bank's back-end stress testing models, a move that the Fed had long opposed out of fear of making the tests easier for banks to pass.
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Robert Hartheimer's arrest comes at a time when the bank is trying to recover from a consent order and the Synapse mess.
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Strong loan and deposit growth led to a double-digit increase in revenues and an even bigger jump in profits at the Columbus, Ohio-based regional bank.
In a tough quarter for the auto industry, the Detroit-based lender posted earnings that sped past Wall Street's expectations.
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