In an environment of persistent economic unease, banks have a unique opportunity to help small businesses, Sekou Kaalund, U.S. Bank's head of branch and small business banking, said at American Banker's 2025 Small Business Banking conference.
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which has advanced far on Capitol Hill, promises to help businesses and government thwart cybercriminal attacks. But privacy advocates say the bill would make misuse of consumer data even easier.
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The city's pilot program enables asylum seekers to pay for food and baby products — reducing government overhead while introducing newcomers to the local economy.
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Through a partnership with technology firm ServiceNow, the card network is offering ways to reduce banks' cost and complexity of resolving disputed transactions.
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Plaid named Cloudflare's Jen Taylor as its first president as the financial-technology company continues to diversify its products and readies itself for a public listing.
Research, insights and data on how banks and financial institutions are using AI can now be found in a new location on American Banker.
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Thomas Soviero unseated Ken Heebner as manager of the best-performing diversified U.S. stock fund over the past 10 years. His secret: Companies with poor credit.
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Global exchange-traded fund assets surged by 6.7% in the first quarter, to $1.399 trillion, with investors pouring a net $41.4 billion into ETFs — more than double their investments in the first quarter of 2010, BlackRock Inc. said.
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Senior officials at the OCC, FDIC and Fed signaled they agree more than they disagree on a plan to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act.
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Gateway Mortgage Group’s dream of being a national, diversified financial services player will hinge on its effort to turn a community bank into an online-only platform.
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Along with amendments to the Bank Secrecy Act, the Taxpayers First Act could help credit unions maintain their tax-exempt status.
PeoplesBank and Cornerstone Bank entered into an agreement to combine their holding companies in a deal slated to close early in 2025. The banks would continue to operate separately.
With regulatory bills making their way through both houses of Congress, stablecoins could soon play a larger role in the financial system — with important implications for the Treasury market.
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Major foreign banks are just as important to the U.S. financial system as large domestic banks, and ought to be regulated as such.
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The Federal Reserve has made clear it intends to stamp out inflation no matter what, and that means interest rates are likely returning to the old normal of the late 1980s and 1990s. But interest rates on savings accounts haven't caught up.
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As the GSEs enter their 15th year in conservatorship, shareholders are wondering when they'll get their company back.
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Five years after the government struggled to disburse pandemic relief checks, the Fed is using improved processing for emergency funds as a reason for banks to get onboard with FedNow.
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Revolut receives a banking license, while SumUp introduces its payments hardware. That and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.
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The Department of Justice has filed a motion opposing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee union's appeal of an August D.C. Circuit ruling allowing the administration to fire up to 90% of the agency's workforce.
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The president of the planned Georgia Skyline Bank says he's cautiously optimistic that his group can raise $35 million of startup capital in time for an opening early next year.
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The Trump administration has ordered banking agencies to root out and identify instances of politically motivated debanking while at the same time raising pressure on banks to scrutinize or potentially sever their ties with liberal nonprofit clients. That dynamic creates a compliance puzzle with no obvious answers, experts say.
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Speakers at the Most Powerful Women in Banking conference Tuesday shared several scenarios in which banks will benefit from dollar-pegged cryptocurrency.
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Mastercard has added an "agentic cloud" to speed deployment, while Visa has issued a protocol to help AI agents communicate. That and more in American Banker's global payments and fintech roundup.
The conditional approval came with residency waivers for board directors and green-lights the bank's business model, which is aimed at serving tech companies and ultra-high net worth customers in the digital asset space.
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