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The Kansas City, Missouri-based bank completed its first bank acquisition in 12 years on New Year's Day. Now it's focused on retaining and growing FineMark Holdings' high-net-worth clients in markets such as Southwest Florida, South Carolina and Arizona.

Rizwan Khalfan (left), an executive VP at TD Bank, and Zor Gorelov, CEO of Kasisto, TD’s partner in developing a chatbot. They are working together on an AI-based virtual assistant for TD's mobile app. (fall 2017)

In experimenting with a chatbot on its mobile app, TD Bank will have to tackle the same issue facing several of its rivals — how to automate conversations with consumers and decide at what point it’s time to switch to a human.

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A previously unreleased paper lays out the pros and cons for banks of technologies designed to restore confidentiality on shared ledgers.

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Paul Burdiss' departure marks the second time in as many years that the Salt Lake City-based company has switched the CEO of its Utah, Idaho and Wyoming division.

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A group of 22 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought, the bureau and the Federal Reserve, arguing that the administration's position that the CFPB cannot be funded is wrong.