Zelle secured a deal with Alacriti to help Alacriti's bank clients adopt person-to-person payments; Paze teamed up with Canadian payment processor Nuvei to expand merchant use of the wallet.
A TD Bank survey found a massive increase in the ranks of people who talk to ChatGPT about their finances. Ted Paris, the bank's head of AI, says banks still have an opportunity here.
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Companies holding a Bitlicense will have to follow similar standards for consumer protection, safety and soundness, and pay more to cover the cost of regulations.
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Supermarket chain Kroger refused to accept Apple Pay and similar options in stores for nine years. It's changed its mind — but Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe's remain holdouts.
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Payments orchestration — or sending transactions to the best option based on cost, speed and other factors — is gaining fresh attention ahead of FedNow's anticipated July launch.
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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Establishing a presence in China is slow going, but Northern Trust Corp., which recently won approval for a Beijing branch office, believes the payoff will be worth the wait.
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UBS AG's wealth management unit for the Americas plans to open a Manhattan office, according to an internal memo issued Thursday.
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Boston Private Financial Holdings, a national umbrella company providing private banking and wealth management services through affiliates, has promoted Mark Thompson to be CEO of its private banking group.
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FHFA Director Mel Watt said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be reincorporated as private entities and the government must provide an explicit guarantee for catastrophic losses in the secondary mortgage market.
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The Federal Reserve’s beige book survey indicates the economy is expanding as household loan demand declines.
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Blue Lion Capital, which had a recent request for a board seat rejected, plans to nominate multiple people to run for the board at HomeStreet's next annual meeting.
The $49 billion-asset bank loaded up on deposits in the third quarter, making sure it has enough on hand to fund the loan growth it has forecast for the coming quarters.
While other Washington regulators revise their approaches to merger reviews, the Federal Reserve has made no official change to its framework. The $35 billion merger could demonstrate just how differently the central bank is approaching the issue — if at all.
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Organizations that put the customer experience front of mind will be the winners, but they must nonetheless expect additional pressure from regulators, new competition, ever more digitally demanding consumers, and no slowdown in technological innovation, says Entersekt's Gerhard Oosthuizen.
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As the transport ticketing market evolves in the wake of the pandemic, further intensifying the challenges caused by the dominance of proprietary systems, it’s time to see a more open, collaborative public transport ecosystem, says Calypso Networks Association's Philippe Vappereau.
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Congress acted first when it freed financial firms from having to disclose the beneficial owners of commercial clients. Now it's time for regulators to further ease anti-money-laundering reporting requirements by freeing them from filing duplicative or unnecessary suspicious activity reports.
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Buy now/pay later lender Affirm hit profitability goals for its fiscal year 2025 and set aggressive guidance for fiscal 2026 ahead of Wall Street's estimates. Its stock soared more than 10% Friday.
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The proposed Berkshire Hills-Brookline merger is expected to finalize on Sept. 1; Flagstar Financial has scheduled a special shareholders' meeting to simplify the bank's regulatory structure; former Credit Suisse executives agreed to settle a suit filed by shareholders claiming they failed to maintain adequate risk management; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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Housing regulator Bill Pulte lodged more fraud allegations against Fed Governor Lisa Cook as she filed a temporary restraining order regarding attempts to remove her.
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Online lenders are urging the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to force banks to disclose all account closures to the agency, following an executive order earlier this month.
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In a letter Friday, U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., called on Pulte to address housing unaffordability instead of concentrating on efforts to destabilize the Federal Reserve.
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Finastra is the latest bank tech provider to bring stablecoins to cross-border payments, which experts say is a way banks can use blockchain post-GENIUS Act.
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Brex's second license in the European Union is a key step in cementing turning payment relationships in the EU into broader financial relationships, including card issuing and cross-selling.
The Treasury Department issued a request for comment Monday, seeking input on four categories of technology that could be used to detect and combat illicit financial activity in crypto assets.
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