Small businesses operate on significantly tighter margins than large enterprises.
With the outlook for mobile payments improving, American Express has brought together several initiatives in this area under a new umbrella dubbed Amex Enabled Digital Solution.
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With countless fintechs nipping at its heels, the bank is working harder to be a one-stop shop for e-commerce, retail store management, payments and authentication.
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French payments company Worldline may cut 8% of its workforce, Moneygram advances its digital strategy by hiring four new leaders, Fed issues enforcement action against Peoples-Marion Bancorp and more in our weekly banking news roundup.
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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.
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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It isn't that unusual for a spouse to learn only after the fact that his or her mate (or ex-mate, if they're divorced) tried to cheat the IRS on a joint tax return.
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Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch investment bank unit said it has hired a Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC executive as its chief financial officer.
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Wells Fargo and the denial stage of recovery; community bankers alarmed after big banks backtrack on faster-payments pricing; credit card, auto loan delinquencies hit seven-year high; and more from this week's most-read stories.
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JPMorgan Chase's banner quarter didn't stop executives from warning that the pause in rate hikes could crimp profits, or from hinting that the bank might downsize its mammoth mortgage operation.
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2018 was mixed bag for credit unions in the Wolverine State, with membership and lending still seeing positive numbers but down from previous years.
Vancouver, Washington's Riverview Bancorp announces Nicole Sherman as its next president and CEO; Happauge, New York-based Dime Community Bancshares is expanding its deposits strategy to Manhattan; UBS hires Guggenheim banker Ananya Das; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
A March 2025 survey by the National Association for Business Economics shows growing inflation concerns — and a diminishing chance of rate cuts — in 2025, but also optimism about avoiding a recession.
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Consumers and small business could eventually feel the impact of stepped-up regulatory scrutiny of bank-fintech partnerships.
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The agency's invitations to "Come in and talk" often precede investigations and subpoenas.
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Regulators are starting to look at bank-fintech partnerships as a source of systemic risk, but the real problem is the lack of consistent prudential rules outside of banking.
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Bank of America has a playbook for government shutdowns, which includes providing fee and payment waivers as well as loan deferrals and forbearance programs, CEO Brian Moynihan said at the American Bankers Association's annual convention.
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New guidance outlines specific due diligence and oversight steps banks must take, reinforcing that they are ultimately accountable for vendor failures.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller has directed central bank staff to explore the concept of a limited payment account, which would give nonbank entities in the payments space — including crypto firms — access to traditional payment systems.
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Senate Banking Committee Republicans, led by committee chair Tim Scott, R-S.C., introduced a bill that would raise the mandatory reporting threshold for certain currency transactions, a move meant to ease banks' anti-money laundering compliance obligations.
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Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is urging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. not to approve new Industrial Loan Company charters until Congress passes a law subjecting ILCs to bank holding company rules.
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Banks and credit unions are steering away from stablecoins chiefly due to lack of customer demand, per new American Banker research.
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Bridge will join a number of digital asset firms vying for the coveted charter, seizing on the crypto-friendly environment in the second Trump term.
Treasury laid off all of its Community Development Financial Institution Fund staff on Friday, with the reduction in force notices saying that the department plans on abolishing the fund.
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