Six trade groups warned the administration layoffs and funding freezes could dampen lending, threatening the administration's goal of economic growth.
WASHINGTON A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. publication on Monday advised banks to include cyber risk in standard disaster-planning and business-continuity exercises as part of general strategic-planning discussions.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law banning medical debt on credit reports; PayPal's former CEO Dan Schulman will exit the board; community banks boost small-business loan approvals; and more in the weekly banking news roundup.
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Competition is heating up south of the U.S. border, prompting fintechs like Airwallex to come to market with a more diverse set of offerings — and to pursue acquisitions that help it move faster.
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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.
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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The trustee charged with winding down Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s U.S. broker-dealer business Friday sued Citigroup Inc. seeking the return of some $1.3 billion the bank seized in the days following Lehman's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Sept. 15, 2008.
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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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A group of state regulators has signed off on 14 recommendations, developed by the fintech industry, aimed at streamlining multistate licensing and supervision.
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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.
Former Silicon Valley Bank exec Floyd Kessler joins Comerica as executive vice president and chief business control officer; Melissa Holding succeeds Michael Robinson as head of wealth management at Huntington; Goldman Sachs' Alexander Mayer is set to take on a senior position at JPMorgan Chase; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
Following President Donald Trump's executive order to protect banking services for crypto firms, lawmakers ask if banks or regulators are to blame.
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Properly designed public banks would be safer than private banks while promoting economic growth.
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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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Former City National CEO Kelly Coffey has a new venture in wealth management; Erin Siegfried is Northwest Bancshares' new chief legal counsel and corporate secretary; Flagstar Bank secures OCC approval to merge its holding company into the bank; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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The regional bank has launched a digital student banking center that's part of a broader strategy to focus on relationship-building.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced job openings for attorney-advisors to represent the agency in defensive and appellate litigation.
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An updated deposit insurance reform bill from Sens. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., would raise deposit insurance for business accounts to $10 million, exclude the largest banks from coverage and insulate community banks from footing the bill.
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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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Legal experts say the Supreme Court's decision not to immediately rule on a request to remove Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook from office suggests that, whatever the court's views on independent agencies may be, it views the central bank differently.
For the fifth consecutive year, Fraser is American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Banking. The CEO, who is nearing her fifth anniversary in the job, remains keenly focused on generating higher revenues, cutting expenses and closing the profitability gap with peers.
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