The Federal Reserve announced it had approved the merger, marking the final regulatory hurdle the banks needed to clear. But a lawsuit seeking to stop the deal is still ongoing.
Wells Fargo is piloting features that could help customers boost savings or plan for a trip.
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The country's central bank cited geopolitical uncertainty and the increased reliance on digital payments as a reason to focus on offline payments as a backup. Also, a look at U.K. bank outages and other news in American Banker's global payments and fintech roundup.
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The question is no longer whether the financial services industry needs a unified approach to combating instant payment fraud but who will take the lead to make it happen. The onus is on the biggest players in the market to show the way forward.
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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.
First Horizon is using artificial intelligence software to analyze employee feedback on workplace surveys.
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The 2018 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10-Mile Run and SacTown run helped CUs raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Children's Miracle Network hospitals. Here's a look at some of the day's festivities.
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BMO Wealth Management aims to modernize its investment service and give advisers better equipment. Others offering automated advice solutions include UBS, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan.
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The information request is the 11th issued by the agency since acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney in January launched a review to examine the bureau's practices.
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The FHFA’s forbearance extension to September is forcing nonbank servicers to buy out more delinquent loans. It's also upended loss estimates for investors and made racial and income disparities in the mortgage market worse.
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Like the fintechs SoFi and LendingClub, DLP Real Estate Capital is acquiring a community bank largely to lower the cost of funding loans.
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Stephen Calk, who is scheduled to face trial in June on bribery charges, allegedly reversed course on whether to make a multimillion-dollar loan to Trump’s campaign chairman following the then-president-elect’s surprise victory in November 2016.
The New York bank's moves add to a series of workforce reductions across Wall Street as bosses navigate an uncertain economic outlook.
The agency has a proposed repeal in place, getting ready to be made public on July 28, which would rescind another Biden-era fair housing policy.
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If Capital One successfully buys Discover Financial Services, it would create an entity with an enormous amount of power. That could lead to abuses of vulnerable consumers.
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The decision will turn on whether regulators think the merged company would lessen competition or pose a significant threat to the broader economy if it runs into financial distress.
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On both sides of the Atlantic, regulators have failed to live up to their promises about how they would approach bank failures. Until they do, the industry operates in legal limbo.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank has been served grand jury subpoenas and been threatened with criminal indictment, moves he called "pretexts" to influence interest rates through "political pressure or intimidation."
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Universal Commerce Protocol is an open standard that establishes a common language for AI agents and systems to work together, and will allow consumers to purchase products from retailers directly through Google's AI Mode in the browser or the Gemini app.
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Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought agreed to request $145 million in funding from the Federal Reserve, yielding to a court order to avoid a contempt citation.
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Jelena McWilliams, former chair of the FDIC, is joining data sharing fintech Plaid as its new president of corporate and external affairs.
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Prosperity Bancshares is fast-tracking bank acquisitions; PNC closed its acquisition of FirstBank Holding Company; BrightBridge Credit Union finalized its merger with Arrha Credit Union; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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The Senate allowed the nomination of a permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to lapse, giving acting Director Russell Vought more time to lead the agency on a temporary basis.
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A housing official renewed his call for credit bureaus to address lenders' concerns. Low pull-through magnifies a cost that's small relative to others.
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