Small businesses are demanding more from their financial partners—speed,
Community banks are embracing branch innovations to deliver a more personalized experience to customers, and differentiate themselves from larger competitors.
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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.
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Through a partnership with technology firm ServiceNow, the card network is offering ways to reduce banks' cost and complexity of resolving disputed transactions.
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Plaid named Cloudflare's Jen Taylor as its first president as the financial-technology company continues to diversify its products and readies itself for a public listing.
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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ETFs are likely to grab a "significant" share of the 401(k) market in coming years, and TD Ameritrade Trust plans to be part of the equation, according to the company's president.
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Last year was the worst year for bank-sold annuities in the past decade — yet banks' income from the products seems to have defied gravity, posting just a small decline.
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Thomas Soviero unseated Ken Heebner as manager of the best-performing diversified U.S. stock fund over the past 10 years. His secret: Companies with poor credit.
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There's plenty credit unions can do to compete with the likes of Quicken Loans' Rocket Mortgage, but sources cautioned more than technology will be needed to boost the bottom line.
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Senior officials at the OCC, FDIC and Fed signaled they agree more than they disagree on a plan to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act.
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Gateway Mortgage Group’s dream of being a national, diversified financial services player will hinge on its effort to turn a community bank into an online-only platform.
PeoplesBank and Cornerstone Bank entered into an agreement to combine their holding companies in a deal slated to close early in 2025. The banks would continue to operate separately.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision to no longer pursue its enforcement action against the credit reporting bureau marks the eighth lawsuit dropped by the agency in recent days.
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Financial downturns hit lower-wealth communities first and cause them to suffer the longest.
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Major foreign banks are just as important to the U.S. financial system as large domestic banks, and ought to be regulated as such.
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The Federal Reserve has made clear it intends to stamp out inflation no matter what, and that means interest rates are likely returning to the old normal of the late 1980s and 1990s. But interest rates on savings accounts haven't caught up.
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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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The two companies are collaborating on making the digital asset private for payroll and other business transactions. While it's unusual, as the most well-known stablecoins are on public ledgers, tech firms are warming to the idea.
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Following a $60 million credit hit, the Salt Lake City bank said that it hasn't found any other related problem loans.
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The parent company of Heartland Bank and Trust plans to acquire a smaller bank based in Carlinville, Illinois. The acquisition would give the buyer added heft in Central Illinois, as well as the Chicago and St. Louis metro areas.
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After a quarter in which Goldman Sachs beat Wall Street's expectations, CEO David Solomon said he was seeing a "meaningful improvement" in the macroeconomic environment.
The San Francisco-based banking giant reported a 9% annual jump in quarterly profits. It also made official its appointment of CEO Charlie Scharf as chairman.
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