Dennis Devine joins the San Francisco-based banking giant after a stint at Chicago-based Alliant Credit Union, which grew rapidly during his four years at the helm.
The fintech industry has some cool workplace quirks, but behind the fun factor is a serious mission to build an enthusiastic, satisfied workforce.
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Noelle Acheson points out that central bank digital currencies are neither the threat nor the solution many seem to think. What matters is how the technology is applied.
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The bank and Chinese technology giant are speeding transaction processing for business payments, Airwallex makes a deal to bolster its payments tech and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.
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The payment company claims the bank is trying to "take advantage" of uncertainty around open banking regulations.
The FBI, NSA and CISA highlighted the emerging dangers of AI-powered deepfakes in phishing campaigns and cataloged protections companies can deploy.
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From student-run branches to courses on credit, budgeting and more, one of the industry's longest-running partnerships is being upended as districts across the country move to virtual learning.
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The company's foundation, whose mission had been carefully planned by BB&T and SunTrust before their merger, opened just nine days before the novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic. Here’s what happened next.
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Finding loan forgiveness programs and keep-the-change loan paydowns are examples of services startups like Savi, Summer and FutureFuel.io are offering banks to help borrowers manage their monthly payments.
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The Alabama-based regional bank didn't effectively track whether some loans complied with flood insurance regulations, according to the Fed. Regions said that it had fixed the issue by 2017.
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A 2018 report laid the groundwork for the Biden administration's push to root out discrimination in home valuation. A counter study says no such practices exist.
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The average for a 30-year home loan marked the fourth straight week of increases, according to Freddie Mac.
As the holiday shopping season approaches, retailers are grappling with how to optimize their inventory and set prices amid higher tariffs. A new Wells Fargo report sheds light on how businesses are adapting.
The Supreme Court won't consider Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka's case alongside a similar one involving the Federal Trade Commission when it hears oral arguments in early December.
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Bipartisan legislation before Congress would create sensible regulation for stablecoins, opening a path to cementing the U.S. dollar's status as the world's most important currency.
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President Trump and Elon Musk probably would not have put Rohit Chopra and his CFPB on their hit list had he run it with common sense, balancing the interests of both the financial industry and their consumers. An independent and consolidated federal consumer financial protection agency is needed, but only if a fair-minded leader runs it.
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The Internal Revenue Service holds a massive trove of sensitive data about American taxpayers that would be of inestimable value to a company operating in the private sector. Protecting it is a matter of national security.
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Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., warned the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve in a Wednesday letter not to bail out cryptocurrency firms in the wake of sharp declines in digital asset values over the last several months.
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Tokenized money market funds are becoming more money-like — but, unlike the payment stablecoins that share the same backing, they are securities. Noelle Acheson looks at what this means for our understanding of money.
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Lenders with between $10 billion and $100 billion of assets grew their core deposits by more than 8% last year, or more than double the industry-wide average. Merger activity was largely responsible for the outsized growth.
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The Olympics are boosting spending in Italy, large-in-part thanks to Americans. In the U.K., Barclays is reportedly leading a meeting to seek support for an existing project. The meeting comes against the backdrop of geopolitical concerns and the dominance of American-based payment firms.
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Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said in comments Wednesday that the central bank plans to publish its Basel III endgame capital proposal for public comment before the end of March.
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The sale of AO Citibank to Moscow-based Renaissance Capital marks the end of an exit plan that started in 2021 and expanded after Russia invaded Ukraine the following year.
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The Federal Reserve is moving quickly to implement its proposed "skinny" master account, giving state-chartered fintechs more access to the central bank's payment systems. But experts say a legal challenge to the rule is almost certain, regardless of where the Fed draws the line.
Some observers say changes to MSR risk-weighting would have limited near-term impact and are unlikely to prompt banks to rush back.
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