The company's recently released 2026 trends report is about "moving and changing the narrative from being Eeyores to being Tiggers," Abbott said in the latest American Banker podcast.
Vault and Retiremap are launching products this week that are designed to help people stash cash where they can.
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The industry was already spending billions to automate before 2020. What it needed was a cultural shift to try new things.
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The buy now/pay later company made a deal with Stride Bank to add banking-as-a-service heft as Affirm Card usage soars and Evolve grapples with defections.
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While debit cards are less profitable, payment experts say they're still an important way to build relationships with consumers.
Banks should work to shield some customers who may otherwise be flagged or blocked by AI-powered safeguards, and consider using alternative data to expand services to the underbanked.
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City National is using digital tools to smooth the transition for clients and advisers. Here’s how the bank's doing it.
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“I’m perennially scared of overwhelming our customers,” Acorns CEO Noah Kerner says at the InVest Conference.
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Envestnet sees asset management as poised for major changes as broker-dealers move to fee-based business.
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The Community Home Lenders Association has called for suspension of federal limits on the loan volumes that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can purchase from individual lenders. The demand came on the same day that the Biden administration fired FHFA Director Mark Calabria and started the process of nominating his successor.
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Thompson, who was most recently the deputy director of the FHFA’s Division of Housing and Mission Goals, replaces Mark Calabria, who was fired Wednesday afternoon.
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The new calculation of borrowers’ monthly obligations will allow for a higher debt load from tuition, potentially opening eligibility to more Black applicants, according to public officials.
A new award will recognize innovations that are changing the way bankers do business.
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said the Fed is not tied to Wall Street or political interests and that independence is necessary to prevent inflation.
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Illinois' recent move to prohibit the inclusion of taxes and tips in credit card interchange fees suggests that electronic transactions are too expensive and also that there are too many entities working unilaterally to reduce those costs.
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Nearly 20 years ago, the SEC made business development companies subject to an obscure reporting rule that pushed them out of major index funds. Reversing course would be a major boon to small businesses.
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All eyes are on the FDIC's toxic workplace scandal and the resultant resignation of its longtime director. However, another problem not being discussed is the agency's "problem bank list."
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The San Francisco-based banking giant reported solid gains in credit card and auto lending as credit remained in check and quarterly operating costs declined from a year ago.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Stephen Miran said he doesn't "really buy" the view that a potential indictment of Fed Chair Jerome Powell would affect the central bank's monetary policy.
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The megabank's net income declined by 13% during the fourth quarter as a result of a $1.2 billion pretax loss on sale related to the divestiture of its remaining operations in Russia.
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The Federal Reserve announced it had approved the merger, marking the final regulatory hurdle the banks needed to clear. But a lawsuit seeking to stop the deal is still ongoing.
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In the fourth quarter of 2025, America's second-largest bank posted earnings that came in just above Wall Street's forecasts.
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David Turner has overseen Regions' finance function since 2010. The Birmingham, Alabama-based company tapped Controller Anil Chadha to replace him.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank has been served grand jury subpoenas and been threatened with criminal indictment, moves he called "pretexts" to influence interest rates through "political pressure or intimidation."
Universal Commerce Protocol is an open standard that establishes a common language for AI agents and systems to work together, and will allow consumers to purchase products from retailers directly through Google's AI Mode in the browser or the Gemini app.
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