With licensing bills progressing through both the House and Senate, stablecoins are poised to become part of the regulated financial sector. How the banking and payments landscape will respond to that is up for debate.
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Fears of a recession intensified after President Trump unveiled his plan to impose a minimum 10% tariff on all U.S. imports, and the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index tumbled by nearly 10%.
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The federal Small Business Investment Company program has seen a spike in interest since a new rule incentivizing support for early stage companies took effect in 2023. Now there is growing political support for ways to further bolster the program.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a court filing that it will repropose a rule requiring lenders to report small-business loan data, citing legal challenges.
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Employees are using ChatGPT without telling their managers and the IT team. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
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The bank technology is launching its signature payment platform in a country where rivals like Square and PayPal are also actively chasing business payments.
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Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
Seven of the 20 top-performing banks with $2 billion to $10 billion of assets last year were based in Texas. But it's not about being bigger.
A pair of GOP-sponsored bills would modify three of the agency's major programs in hopes of making more capital available to manufacturers.
In March, Vantage Bank, in partnership with Custodia Bank
So who's using stablecoins anyway? As banks, fintechs
With licensing bills progressing through both the House and Senate, stablecoins are poised to become part of the regulated financial sector. How the banking and payments landscape will respond to that is up for debate.
A pair of GOP-sponsored bills would modify three of the agency's major programs in hopes of making more capital available to manufacturers.
In March, Vantage Bank, in partnership with Custodia Bank
So who's using stablecoins anyway? As banks, fintechs
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.
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Financial services executives report seeing an increase in quantifiable value from AI investments in the fifth annual Broadridge survey.
April 3
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Democratic lawmakers turned the stablecoin markup into a marathon event, leading off with amendments that would have addressed concerns about conflicts of interest between elected officials like President Donald Trump and stablecoin oversight.
April 3
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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is pressing Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Inspector General Jennifer Fain for answers on whistleblower allegations of fraud, financial mismanagement and retaliation at the agency's watchdog office.
April 3
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An aggressive suite of tariffs from President Trump will complicate the Federal Reserve's job as it struggles to quash inflation and avoid an economic downturn.
April 3
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The top five banks had a combined commercial real estate loan volume of more than $482 billion at the end of the fourth quarter.
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