The 66-year-old banker will take on the role of executive chairman at Moelis & Co. Co-President Navid Mahmoodzadegan will become CEO.
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A federal judge has ordered FDATR, a now-defunct student loan debt relief provider, to pay $43 million in restitution and fees, bucking the trend of cases brought by the Biden administration-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau being dropped.
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BNY's chief commercial officer talks about AI, tariffs and her efforts to help create a leaner, meaner bank.
May 5 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Trump plans to make changes to the rule governing consumer financial data rights despite rare bipartisan support for the regulation.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that tight bank regulations are driving the growth of private credit, which he thinks reinforces the case for deregulation.
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A service outage on Friday at Fiserv affected multiple banks and crippled at least 60 applications for some Fiserv customers, including Early Warning's peer-to-peer money transfer app Zelle. The issue, while resolved, reiterates the importance of bank redundancies.
May 5
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
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 new executive order reverses digital ID initiatives, fraud alerts and federal data-sharing plans from which banks stood to benefit.
The annual rankings honor the notable performance of individuals in banking and finance and as teams.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has sent a draft proposal to revise the supplemental leverage ratio to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as a first step toward revising the leverage rule.
The 66-year-old banker will take on the role of executive chairman at Moelis & Co. Co-President Navid Mahmoodzadegan will become CEO.
A new executive order reverses digital ID initiatives, fraud alerts and federal data-sharing plans from which banks stood to benefit.
The annual rankings honor the notable performance of individuals in banking and finance and as teams.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has sent a draft proposal to revise the supplemental leverage ratio to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as a first step toward revising the leverage rule.
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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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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Staking activities and stablecoins are two of the possible ways banks could have a role in decentralized finance, said Margaret Butler, head of the financial services practice at the law firm BakerHostetler and Kristiane Koontz, director of Treasury Services and Payments at Zions Bank, in interviews recorded at the Digital Banking Conference in June.
July 1
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A government-sponsored enterprise executive shared his take on the financial implications of Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte's initiatives.
May 1 -
Global purchase volume — the aggregate dollar amount of purchases made with Mastercard-branded cards — rose to $1.99 trillion, while falling short of analysts' estimates of $2.04 trillion.
May 1 -
Fintech deals for banks are in bloom going into May, but pests like problematic levels of relay fraud to bots conducting cyberattacks against banks are abound.
May 1 -
In a recent executive order, President Trump tried to wipe out a legal concept used to root out discrimination. But banks, worried about what will happen the next time a Democrat is in the White House, may be reluctant to change their policies.
May 1 -
A new survey conducted by IntraFi found that nearly three-quarters of bank executives say a recession is here or imminent, and tariffs now rank among their top three economic concerns.
May 1