So who's using stablecoins anyway? As banks, fintechs
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Holly O'Neill, who was No. 5 on American Banker's list of the Most Powerful Women in Banking last year, will oversee a new department combining BofA's retail and preferred units. Aron Levine, who previously led preferred banking, is leaving the company.
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Decreased funding for Community Development Financial Institutions and the declawing of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. are top of mind for bankers.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said it would cease its participation in interagency principles for regulating climate-related risks at the banks it regulates.
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An executive order requiring the government to stop issuing paper checks is expected to help banks, which have seen a rise in check fraud with the introduction of mobile deposits and digital check imaging.
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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.
Stablecoins—the crypto tokens pegged to fiat money or algorithmically engineered to hold a set price
Abhishek Nagesh is vice president of regulatory policy oversight at Barclays. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in global banking and financial risk management.
Visa, Mastercard, PayPal are among the firms moving the cryptocurrency option closer to the point of sale.
So who's using stablecoins anyway? As banks, fintechs
Stablecoins—the crypto tokens pegged to fiat money or algorithmically engineered to hold a set price
Abhishek Nagesh is vice president of regulatory policy oversight at Barclays. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in global banking and financial risk management.
Visa, Mastercard, PayPal are among the firms moving the cryptocurrency option closer to the point of sale.
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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Here's what bankers should know about Trump's recent crypto reserve moves, Evolve Bank's continued fallout, artificial intelligence and other technology news.
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The Internal Revenue Service has placed 50 senior IT leaders on administrative leave, as the union filed suit over a Trump order on collective bargaining.
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Terry Dolan, vice chair and chief administration officer at the Minnesota bank, had been at the company for more than 25 years.
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While debit cards are less profitable, payment experts say they're still an important way to build relationships with consumers.
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Former Capital One Multifamily executive Grace Huebscher departed recently and the Federal Housing Finance Agency appointed a successor amid broader reform.
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