While Vista Bank is focusing on organic growth in Florida, it's positioning itself as a Texas buyer.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James announced new state legislation to ban unfair and abusive business practices, giving state regulators broader authority to crack down on consumer abuses.
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Hackers breached the New York community bank's cybersecurity walls in 2022, drawing regulatory scrutiny and causing its CEO to resign.
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While often used to describe a digital asset that hedges against cryptocurrency's volatility, the reality of stablecoins is much more complex.
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Both consumers and banks reported that the rate of fraud and scams has steadied, according to Fincen and FTC data, but the total cost continued rising.
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A much-anticipated stablecoin bill advanced to the full Senate in an 18-6 vote, giving it a promising path to pass with 60 votes. But amendments banks favored were shut out of the markup.
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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.
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
The Trump administration says it will nominate Jonathan McKernan to serve as Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance. McKernan has already been nominated as the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Simon Randall is the CEO and co-founder of Pimloc, an AI company changing how global organizations can responsibly manage video content while maintaining public trust. Before Pimloc, he led the OMG Life team to develop and launch the world's first intelligent wearable camera and its associated technology platform licensing, before spinning out the visual classification side of the business to create Pimloc in 2017. He previously worked for a range of global businesses in London, Sydney and Istanbul, bringing with him a wealth of consumer tech experience including 12 successful years at Nokia across go-to-market, marketing, business strategy, insight and planning, global online sales, global performance marketing and product development areas. Prior to Nokia, he worked in a range of creative hot-houses and strategic consultancies across the beverages, banking and tech sectors.
The man who blew the whistle over the incident says the bank fired him in retaliation for reporting what he called a "significant security breach."
While Vista Bank is focusing on organic growth in Florida, it's positioning itself as a Texas buyer.
The Trump administration says it will nominate Jonathan McKernan to serve as Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance. McKernan has already been nominated as the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Simon Randall is the CEO and co-founder of Pimloc, an AI company changing how global organizations can responsibly manage video content while maintaining public trust. Before Pimloc, he led the OMG Life team to develop and launch the world's first intelligent wearable camera and its associated technology platform licensing, before spinning out the visual classification side of the business to create Pimloc in 2017. He previously worked for a range of global businesses in London, Sydney and Istanbul, bringing with him a wealth of consumer tech experience including 12 successful years at Nokia across go-to-market, marketing, business strategy, insight and planning, global online sales, global performance marketing and product development areas. Prior to Nokia, he worked in a range of creative hot-houses and strategic consultancies across the beverages, banking and tech sectors.
The man who blew the whistle over the incident says the bank fired him in retaliation for reporting what he called a "significant security breach."
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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The president is likely to nominate Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman to be the central bank's next vice chair for supervision, a post vacated by Michael Barr.
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In a positive sign for the economy, headline inflation slowed in February. But the reading alone likely is not enough to break the Federal Open Market Committee out of its wait-and-see mode.
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President Donald Trump's tariff policies will strain some banks' business customers, as their supply chains will have to be reconfigured. But uncertainty is the real headwind.
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A federal judge said she is inclined to issue a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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A new order requires certain non-bank financial companies in certain ZIP codes to report transactions over $200, much lower than the previous $10,000 threshold.
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