The Trump administration has ordered banking agencies to root out and identify instances of politically motivated debanking while at the same time raising pressure on banks to scrutinize or potentially sever their ties with liberal nonprofit clients. That dynamic creates a compliance puzzle with no obvious answers, experts say.
Orchard Platform, which provides services to institutional investors in the marketplace lending industry, has raised $30 million in additional funding.
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2023 saw a recovery in ridership and signs of progress for contactless boarding. But there's still lots of work to do.
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Executives at America's largest banks are making rosier predictions about the financial health of U.S. households than they were a year ago, when their forecasts proved to be overly pessimistic.
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India softens stance on payment regs; a Dutch neobank turns to gen AI; and more.
Research, insights and data on how banks and financial institutions are using AI can now be found in a new location on American Banker.
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Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs Group, revealed some of his daily habits while testifying at the Galleon insider-trading trial.
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A broker who moved from Fidelity Investments to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has been temporarily barred in a settlement from calling his former clients to ask them to follow him.
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Securities America has agreed to meet with a mediator in an attempt to resolve a flood of investor cases that could expose it to more than $300 million in liabilities.
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Community banks and credit unions fear a Senate plan and other legislative ideas will nullify steps taken by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that have made it easier for smaller institutions to compete.
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The Washington-based credit union has set aside $1 million to help members with down payments for mortgages.
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The Seattle company has a letter of intent to sell its home loan centers to Homebridge Financial Services.
Depositors are still flocking to online-only banking platforms offered by companies such as Ally, Capital One and Discover. But overall customer satisfaction took a "statistically significant" drop, according to a new J.D. Power report.
The San Francisco-based bank announced that another consent order with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has been terminated. The six-year-old order was related to the bank's risk compliance management and certain loan practices.
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Regulators must be cognizant of any threat that could harm the financial sector while resisting the urge to overstep their authority to set policy that should be decided by Congress.
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Proactively checking in on your customers lets them know who is on their side.
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Strong climate policy and continued development of stress-testing tools by central banks are essential to transitioning to carbon neutrality.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Wednesday that breakthroughs in artificial intelligence will undoubtedly make life easier and lead to growth, but acknowledged that the technology's adoption will lead to short-term labor market disruptions.
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Acting Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Travis Hill said the agency will open the bidding process for failed banks to private equity and other nonbanks, streamline resolution plans and revamp its bidding and funding models, reforms spurred by 2023's bank failures.
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Federal Reserve Governor Stephan Miran said the economic standoff with China could increase market volatility, further necessitating the central bank to move its policy stance to neutral.
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"We actually see a little bit more strength in the nonprime [consumer]," CFO Brian Wenzel told American Banker.
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New research from American Banker finds that most are still hashing out plans for crypto and stablecoins, but a handful have already launched projects.
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CEO Bill Demchak said there seemed to be "some confusion," after PNC's stock fell some 4% on Wednesday.
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Doyle describes herself as naturally optimistic, even after being a passenger on the plane that crashed into the Hudson River in 2009.
Booth, who is BMO's head of U.S. personal and business banking, talked about how soccer has been at the center of the bank's marketing push in California.
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