Early Warning Services is teaming up with Fiserv to quickly drive uptake for its new Paze digital wallet with merchants and credit card issuers outside of its owner banks. Paze partnered with Worldpay earlier this month to unlock a similar distribution channel.
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Citizens & Northern's deal for Susquehanna Community is the eighth involving a Pennsylvania seller in less than two years. An industry consultant based in the Keystone State expects the pace to slow as the number of buyers dwindles.
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Checkout-free retail, which enables transactions without a dedicated point of sale, provides a trove of data that can aid dozens of mobile banking functions, though it's not widely used due to difficult upgrades.
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A 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs between the U.S. and China boosted the near-term economic outlook for banks, but tensions and uncertainty around trade barriers remain high.
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The fintech's first-quarter earnings results beat analysts' expectations on nearly every metric. Now, the second-look lender is looking to partner with regional banks as it builds out its pre-screen and lead generation platforms.
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President Donald Trump has signed two Congressional Review Act resolutions nullifying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule capping many overdraft fees and subjecting large data brokers to regulation.
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Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.
Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.
Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
Adam Tahir, CPA, is a strategist at
Katerina Brahy is vice president of product and engagement at Maps Credit Union, a member-owned financial cooperative based in Oregon. She is currently researching how "relational risk" shapes loyalty, decision-making and long-term relevance in financial systems.
Early Warning Services is teaming up with Fiserv to quickly drive uptake for its new Paze digital wallet with merchants and credit card issuers outside of its owner banks. Paze partnered with Worldpay earlier this month to unlock a similar distribution channel.
Adam Tahir, CPA, is a strategist at
Katerina Brahy is vice president of product and engagement at Maps Credit Union, a member-owned financial cooperative based in Oregon. She is currently researching how "relational risk" shapes loyalty, decision-making and long-term relevance in financial systems.
Bankers are concerned about stablecoins gaining traction due to the passage of the GENIUS Act, and also continue to sound the alarm about the failure to resolve check fraud disputes, according to the latest quarterly survey from IntraFi.
Pulaski Savings Bank's failure will cost the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund 57.6% of its total assets.
The CEO of First Northwest Bancorp is promising to fight a lawsuit claiming the lender helped a client perpetrate a Ponzi scheme that bilked a hedge fund out of more than $100 million.
Most Influential Women in Payments honorees say the dramatic expansion in technology presents new opportunities and challenges as employers evolve away from traditional business models.
Honorees from American Banker's Most Influential Women in Payments discuss spotting tangible uses for innovation, rather than buying into hype.
Each year, American Banker recognizes the women who are advancing the payments industry in banking, retail, acquiring, processing and more.

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The banks have invested in gen AI and embedded finance, respectively.
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John Buran shares how his New York bank and its small business customers are faring with tariff uncertainty — and how some have quickly changed suppliers and modified business plans — in the latest American Banker podcast.
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Experts warn that stopping modern scams requires more than AI. It takes human oversight, customer engagement and cross-industry collaboration.
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The Dallas-based company's broker-dealer arm, Texas Capital Securities, has also made several recent hires as it continues to expand its capabilities.
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Customers expect fast loan approvals, CEO Brad Calhoun says, so the credit union now lets artificial intelligence decide who will get credit cards, auto loans and personal loans.
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The neobank reported a 47% increase in revenue in the first three months of the year.
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Julian, the bank's onetime audit chief, recently agreed to settle with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a tiny percentage of the $7 million the agency had been seeking. In an interview, he spoke about the expensive legal fight and who bears responsibility for the bank's fake-accounts scandal.
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