Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that tight bank regulations are driving the growth of private credit, which he thinks reinforces the case for deregulation.
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The Treasury secretary criticized post-crisis bank rules as outdated and burdensome, vowing to streamline financial regulation, revamp supervision and reduce constraints on private enterprise.
March 6
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The nomination of Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to the full Senate, where he's likely to be confirmed along party lines.
March 6
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Following a record-setting 2024, only one transaction involving a credit union buying a bank has been announced so far this year. Seller concerns about regulatory approval and pushback from bank industry groups have contributed to the slowdown.
March 6
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Jenkins succeeds retiring CEO Gary Regoli at the Florida-based credit union, which has acquired several community banks and launched a bitcoin service that it later shut down.
March 6
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The company lets business owners comingle personal and business finances in one app.
March 6
Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.
Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
A service outage on Friday at Fiserv affected multiple banks and crippled at least 60 applications for some Fiserv customers, including Early Warning's peer-to-peer money transfer app Zelle. The issue, while resolved, reiterates the importance of bank redundancies.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that tight bank regulations are driving the growth of private credit, which he thinks reinforces the case for deregulation.
A service outage on Friday at Fiserv affected multiple banks and crippled at least 60 applications for some Fiserv customers, including Early Warning's peer-to-peer money transfer app Zelle. The issue, while resolved, reiterates the importance of bank redundancies.
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.
The CEO of First Northwest Bancorp is promising to fight a lawsuit claiming the lender helped a client perpetrate a Ponzi scheme that bilked a hedge fund out of more than $100 million.
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.
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The banks have invested in gen AI and embedded finance, respectively.
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John Buran shares how his New York bank and its small business customers are faring with tariff uncertainty — and how some have quickly changed suppliers and modified business plans — in the latest American Banker podcast.
July 15
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Senate GOP leaders also aim to make the TCJA tax cuts permanent, which would raise the costs of tax reform unless a new scoring method is adopted.
March 5
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The top five bank M&A deals had an average deal value to tangible common equity ratio of nearly 185%.
March 5
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American Banker's Payments Forum conference brought together some of the most effective women in the payments industry to discuss career strategy, adjusting to the fast pace of technology and best practices for taking on new roles.
March 5
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President Donald Trump said he inherited an "economic catastrophe" from his predecessor in a joint address to Congress, though markets fell Tuesday on fears of a budding trade war with Canada and Mexico.
March 4
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Edward Arthur Nurse was in charge of the vault at Park Side Credit Union. Then $389,000 went missing, replaced by piles of fake cash.
March 4
