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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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Omar Green, wallet.ai's CEO

As artificial intelligence makes analytics better, the question of who gets to benefit from the intel will come up more. Fintech startup wallet.ai believes customers should be told of propensities that might be hurting them.

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In recent years, new machine learning algorithms and big data have reduced fraud losses to an extent — however, their impact has been relatively limited, in part because the industry has been reluctant to use them. But the use of such technology is soon likely to become far more widespread in the U.K., and across the EU.

Maxine Waters

House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., blocked a planned joint hearing on a crypto market structure bill amid concerns about the Trump family's conflicts of interest in cryptocurrency.

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Cassandra Seier speaks from a podium at WIFM's NYC Gala on October 30, 2025.

The New York Stock Exchange disclosed the news on Monday of the sudden passing of its head of International Capital Markets.

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Noelle Acheson looks at recent proposals to allow payment institutions access to central bank liquidity, and what this could mean for both banking and economic resilience.