Infrastructure provider BVNK will enable the new stablecoin offering and crypto firm Fireblocks' integration services will help facilitate the connection to Worldpay.
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A Maryland judge temporarily halted mass layoffs of probationary employees at multiple agencies, citing legal violations and harm to states' ability to respond to unemployment needs.
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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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A federal judge in Maryland ruled against the City of Baltimore's attempt to block cuts to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program funding on procedural grounds.
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Bankers' surveys of commercial clients have found that corporate decision-makers are less concerned about adverse tariff effects than nervous investors.
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Thirty-eight TD Bank locations and 24 Flagstar branches are set to shut down. Both banks are coming out of tumultuous periods.
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The biggest loser had a net loss on sale of loans and leases of $908.2 million.
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Joe McQuaid is chief operating officer at Concurrent.
With over 25 years in the financial services industry, he has held leadership roles at New York Life Investment Management and Guggenheim. He also founded Ascend Consulting and helped launch and served as COO for an RIA that grew to nearly $1.5 billion in AUM. He then founded Imprint Wealth, scaling it to nearly $1 billion in assets before
The regulator says its prior amicus brief, which cited the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and sided with borrowers, was no longer valid.
Infrastructure provider BVNK will enable the new stablecoin offering and crypto firm Fireblocks' integration services will help facilitate the connection to Worldpay.
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.
Infrastructure provider BVNK will enable the new stablecoin offering and crypto firm Fireblocks' integration services will help facilitate the connection to Worldpay.
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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New guidance from the Office of Personnel Management states that unions' collective bargaining agreements cannot interfere with mass layoffs carried out by federal agencies.
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Dodig, who has led the Canadian bank since 2014, will be succeeded by Harry Culham, CIBC's head of capital markets.
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Many businesses are slow to adopt payment automation. Amex shared new B2B research with American Banker, and execs R.J. Ancona and Widad Chaoui discussed the firm's strategy to lure corporates to digital payments in an interview at the recent Payments Forum conference and over email.
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The task force terminated vendor contracts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development worth a combined $305 million, according to its wall of receipts.
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As the Senate Banking Committee meets to consider landmark stablecoin legislation today, the banking industry is beginning to wake up to what some experts say is an existential threat.
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