Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and as their needs evolve, financial institutions must evolve with them.
The American Bankers Association is deemphasizing the crisis-era fight over regulation and refocusing on the rising competitive threat posed by technology companies.
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Taking aim at a market dominated by decades-old private-network fuel card players, the San Francisco-based firm AtoB is teaming with Mastercard to launch an open-loop payments platform for trucking firms and fleet operators.
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Dogwood State Bank and Community First Bancorp plan an all-stock deal to create a $2.2 billion bank, technology firm Fiserv announces a partnership with the National Hockey League's New Jersey Devils, former Texas secretary of state will join Cullen/Frost's board and more in our weekly banking news roundup.
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PayPal hopes to demonstrate its coin's utility by using it to take a stake in a company called Mesh.
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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State Street Corp. led custody banks reporting higher fee income in the first quarter as acquisitions and the stock market rally boosted assets.
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A decade after its launch, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's 401(k) platform for small businesses is approaching 1 million participants — and it's expanding beyond its signature 401(k) focus.
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A court in Italy acquitted Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp. and bankers at the companies in a market-abuse case relating to the 2003 collapse of Parmalat Finanziaria SpA, Italy's biggest dairy company.
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Readers react to Sen. Elizabeth Warren's "too big to jail" bill, respond to legislation prohibiting banks from denying service to gun dealers, consider the impact of housing finance reform on small lenders and more.
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The CEO of the nation's largest bank urged policymakers to ease capital rules for banks and tackle inefficiencies in the housing markets, while offering bold ideas of his own on education and health care.
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The administration official will serve a five-year term as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's chief regulator.
Due to retirement, burnout, heightened regulatory standards and profitability challenges, lots of lenders are looking for new chief financial officers. The wave of departures is giving banks a chance to bring in more highly skilled finance chiefs.
Housing finance players accused of wronging consumers slammed the lawsuits as politically motivated efforts by former Biden-era bureau director Rohit Chopra.
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The cybersecurity crisis arising from super-fast computing is approaching more quickly than the industry and its regulators may realize.
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The crypto industry yearns for clarity on stablecoin regulations, but allowing the central bank to set the rules of the road would stifle innovation.
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We can't afford to miss this opportunity to build capacity in community development financial institutions.
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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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Six trade groups warned the administration layoffs and funding freezes could dampen lending, threatening the administration's goal of economic growth.
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The Boston-based bank is the second bank in three months to face pressure to sell by the activist investor group HoldCo Asset Management.
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Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said in an interview with American Banker that his agency is looking at whether its own internal guidance may have contributed to a climate where banks feel the need to "cite everything" to avoid supervisory penalties.
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AlumniFi, the digital banking arm of Michigan State University's official credit union, is now an official bank partner for the NCAA's Big East conference.
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A failure at an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia caused widespread outages, hitting services at several banks and fintechs.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged skepticism around the central banks large-scale asset purchases during the pandemic, noting the Fed likely "should have stopped" sooner, but fell short of admitting that the purchase of MBS' contributed to housing disparities.
JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon said that his bank can improve its procedures to guard against fraud.
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