The financial services firm based in Houston tried to buy a Chicago community bank three years ago as part of a plan to offer traditional banking and digital asset services on one platform. With Illinois state approval secured, it now awaits a decision from the Fed.
IdentityMind Global will offer Confirm.io’s remote document verification technology to its clients.
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Retired banker Brad Schwartz is set to join First National as finance chief; Bar Harbor Bankshares agrees to acquire Guaranty Bancorp; CDFI Friendly America reveals new data on lending; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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Prometeo aims to make business-to-business payments and remittances between the U.S. and Latin America easier and cheaper.
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While often used to describe a digital asset that hedges against cryptocurrency's volatility, the reality of stablecoins is much more complex.
A new service speeds payments by using artificial intelligence to predict which buyers are most likely to pay.
San Antonio-based Broadway National Bank hopes marketing campaigns featuring old presidents with new looks will boost brand recognition in Dallas and Houston.
After passing the Federal Reserve's stress tests with high marks, large banks announced dividend increases. In some cases, they also said the Fed had conceded that certain prior calculations needed to be revised.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's attacks on credit card reward programs don't square with the fact that the vast majority of consumers are very satisfied with their service.
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New York Department of Financial Services' guidance advising banks and insurers to avoid doing business with the NRA was ruled as likely to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Why is it still on the department's website?
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Financial services professionals should be in the business of normalizing discussions about personal finance. The result will be a more financially literate population, and that's good for everyone.
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JPMorganChase, BNY, Citi and others are getting ready to launch autonomous digital workers, but for most, several pieces need to be in place before they can go live.
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The government shutdown is over, and Congress gets back to its regular business. For banks, the biggest-ticket issues are ongoing deliberations on raising deposit insurance and shaping a crypto market structure bill.
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Of the 90 honorees on American Banker's 2025 Best Banks to Work For list, 28 had between $3 billion and $10 billion of assets.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. acting Chair Travis Hill said Thursday morning that the agency's first proposed rules under recently passed stablecoin legislation should be published by the end of the year.
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Several of the Best Banks to Work For 2025 are using artificial intelligence in ways that help their workforces.
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Fintechs and banks approach innovation from different starting points. Noelle Acheson points out that this can be seen in their approach to payments, and now also in the approach to stablecoins.
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As AI makes financial scams more and more convincing, banks would do customers a real service by allowing them to opt in to dual approval of transactions above certain dollar limits.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Friday approved national trust charter applications for five crypto firms, affirming the administration's push to allow crypto companies the ability to take deposits.
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