A housing official renewed his call for credit bureaus to address lenders' concerns. Low pull-through magnifies a cost that's small relative to others.
Companies that fail to understand blockchain and distributed ledger technologies risk making expensive missteps.
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Synchrony Financial's fourth-quarter earnings results missed analysts' forecasts and investors pummeled the stock due to a jump in charge-offs.
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Circle and other payment executives say Trump's stated support for digital assets will remove hurdles that have held back support from merchants and consumers.
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Biometric payment terminals were on full display at the National Retail Federation's Big Show in New York. American Banker's Joey Pizzolato tried terminals from Ingenico and JPMorgan Payments. What he found might surprise you.
For most retailers heading into this year’s holiday-season sales crunch, the epic Equifax data breach was only the latest in a series of escalating threats that are having a profound effect on the way they handle payments.
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The Illinois company, four months removed from its last bank acquisition, just announced the biggest purchase in its history. Alpine Bancorp. will add low-cost deposits and scale to Midland States' wealth management business.
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The CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management and American Banker’s Most Powerful Woman in Finance shares advice about dealing with tricky clients and colleagues.
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There's a growing consensus that helping young employees pay back student loan debt could be key to recruiting and retaining millennial talent at credit unions.
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Freddie Mac representatives would not comment on the sudden resignation of Brickman. Interim CEO Michael Hutchins has served as Freddie’s executive vice president of investments and capital markets since January 2015.
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The teams include people who previously worked for the Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency as well as HUD.
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The Toronto parent of BMO Harris Bank has joined a growing list of banks directing billions of dollars toward affordable housing and loans to low- and moderate-income communities.
The San Francisco-based bank announced that another consent order with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has been terminated. The six-year-old order was related to the bank's risk compliance management and certain loan practices.
A Federal Reserve proposal to calculate stress capital buffers would mean that the banking system could be less likely to withstand an economic shock, the Democratic senator said.
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False transaction disputes and other individual-level financial fraud cost the industry billions. It's time to join forces and even the odds.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it is in favor of consumer choice, but its shifting position on earned wage access calls that commitment into question.
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The growing buy now/pay later industry requires regulations, but existing regulations for credit card lenders are not fit to the purpose. BNPL needs bespoke guidelines to protect consumers.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association is examining the data to see if the high ratio warrants a new push for a premium cut but said rising arrears call for caution.
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Visa and Mastercard logged increases in holiday spending, an industry group called for increased BNPL regulation in the U.S., and more in this week's global payments roundup.
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When Congress returns from its recess in 2026, a number of financial legislative issues will be teed up, including crypto market structure, deposit insurance and supervisory disputes.
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New Jersey-based OceanFirst Financial slid in its planned $579 million acquisition of Flushing Financial just before the end of the year. The private equity firm Warburg Pincus is also participating in the transaction.
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Credit unions hit new highs in membership, deposits and loans in 2025. But it was also a chaotic year for the industry's governing body, and the sector faced renewed attacks by banks.
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the administration must request funds from the Federal Reserve, rejecting a Trump DOJ legal theory.
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