A failure at an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia caused widespread outages, hitting services at several banks and fintechs.
JPMorgan Chase has named retired Army Gen. Raymond Odierno senior adviser to the company on international relations, cybersecurity, leadership development and other issues.
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Atlanta-based Global Payments has been working with an adviser to study the feasibility of a deal for Shift4 Payments, according to the people.
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The Swedish payment company is using generative artificial intelligence to make its human workforce more efficient — but also expects the technology to fill in for roles it loses to attrition.
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As innovation in other domains accelerates, the inertia plaguing our international payment systems is a critical bottleneck, stifling U.S. businesses that choose to engage in global commerce.
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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Bill Gross is starting a new version of his PIMCO Total Return Fund that will rely less on derivatives and leverage, two of the tools that he used to build Total Return into the largest mutual fund.
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Japan's unfolding nuclear predicament has hammered some narrowly targeted exchange-traded funds, but not always the ones investors might think.
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While serving on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. board in 2008, Rajat Gupta told Raj Rajaratnam of talks about whether to buy Wachovia Corp. or American International Group Inc., according to a wiretap recording.
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The administration’s choice to regulate the government-sponsored enterprises appeared to distance himself from speculation that the White House may try to overhaul housing finance without legislation.
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The private equity acquisition of the fintech vendor Ellie Mae will give it some breathing room in a declining originations market because it will have a more patient and strategic investor than its myriad shareholders as a public company.
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Industry observers will be closely monitoring Mark Calabria's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday for hints about how the Trump administration plans to proceed on mortgage finance reform.
Toronto-Dominion failed to submit suspicious-transaction reports in cases where it was reasonable to suspect the transfers were tied to money laundering or terrorist financing, along with other violations, according to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada.
A rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters in Washington Monday afternoon boasted 17 lawmakers and roughly 600 attendees, organizers said, who were decrying Trump administration efforts to effectively shutter the bureau.
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Financial institutions need to begin sharing profiles of fraudsters posing as legitimate customers. The technology to do it securely is already available.
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The Fed waited too long to address inflation. Now we can expect higher borrowing costs as well as inflation.
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Banks need to advocate for the advancement of women-owned small businesses. Our economic diversity depends on it.
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Younger borrowers are increasingly moving money away from financial institutions, but banks could recapture Gen Z capital by helping them build credit.
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A number of banks experienced major increases in 7(a) lending activity during SBA's recently completed fiscal year, as program-wide loan volume topped $37 billion for the first time.
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The company is becoming a full-fledged processor and accelerating its artificial intelligence plays, moves CEO Paulette Rowe said provide more control over agentic commerce, which payment experts say is threatening traditional payment facilitators.
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As Coinbase joins a wave of crypto companies seeking national trust charters from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, traditional banks are warning regulators not to rush approvals for crypto firms eager to enter the federal banking system.
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A new survey finds that fraud losses have jumped significantly in the last year, with digital channels and check fraud posing the biggest threats.
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Comerica Bank in Dallas has been around since before the Civil War. But the banking crisis of 2023 tamped down on its access to low-cost funding, and the problem persisted until it finally decided to sell itself.
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Frank Bisignano, the former chairman and CEO of Fiserv, will become the "CEO" of the IRS, a newly created role, in addition to his post running the Social Security Administration.
Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould says he wants to crack down on big banks caught cutting ties with controversial, if lawful, individuals and businesses, as required by President Trump's debanking initiative.
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