The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in an advisory opinion said that "covered" earned wage access products should not be considered an extension of credit under the Truth in Lending Act. It also said that expedited delivery fees and tips should not be considered finance charges.
The latest generation of anti-money-laundering software uses agentic AI to help alleviate AML alert fatigue. Experts say this use of the technology is promising, though they offer some caveats.
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In a Senate Judiciary hearing Tuesday morning, some Republican lawmakers signaled openness to joining their Democratic counterparts in supporting the Credit Card Competition Act.
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The U.S. is alone among G7 nations in not allowing nonbanks direct access to vital central bank payments rails. It's past time for regulations to catch up with clear consumer preferences.
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Buy now/pay later popularity has been on the rise as more consumers are turning to short-term installment lending to finance everyday purchases. The Swedish financier will find out if that momentum will be a winner with investors in the U.S.
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Banks have warmed up to digital wealth management tools but will need to use their human advisers, too, to beat fintechs.
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Wells Fargo is piloting features that could help customers boost savings or plan for a trip.
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Atlanta's Westside neighborhood is one of the most underbanked regions in the country, but a new collaboration between Equifax and the National Federation for CDCUs aims to tackle that head on.
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The company's second-quarter net income was $116 million, with mortgage banking revenue of $239 million.
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The pressure is on the fintech, which helps banks make digital loans, to stanch its losses and show its lofty market valuation was deserved.
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The bill, backed by the New York Credit Union Association, has cleared the Senate, but a companion bill is stuck in committee in the Assembly.
Artificial intelligence is moving from science fiction to practical reality fast, and it's in banks' best interest to gear up now for the changes ahead. Here are some strategies to consider.
The bank said it would acquire Bank of Idaho for $245.4 million in stock. It marked the 12th bank deal for Glacier over the past decade.
As they rewrite the strategy document that guides their interest-rate decisions, Federal Reserve officials are trying to figure out how to embrace the labor market lessons learned before and during the pandemic.
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Federal banking agencies should disregard a demand by state attorneys general that national banks be instructed to provide investigators with bank records outside of a court proceeding.
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The Fed's Basel endgame draft rule would restrict access to capital and credit on Main Street.
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Banks are perfectly willing to comply with a reasonable data collection standard. The problem is that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final rule makes demands far in excess of what the law requires.
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The Treasury official renewed a pledge to avoid hurting how mortgages trade in a Fox Business News interview as a new study highlighted one way to do that.
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A federal appeals court agreed to have the full bench rehear arguments by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's union about whether the Trump administration planned to gut the agency through mass firings.
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Daryl Byrd, who led Iberiabank until it was acquired by First Horizon, has assembled an investor group to acquire MC Bancshares and its subsidiary, MC Bank & Trust Co. in Morgan City, Louisiana. Byrd will become CEO.
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Nine banks and lenders were impacted by the yearslong, $923 million fraud enterprise, according to an indictment of top Tricolor executives. The banks were not publicly named, but JPMorganChase, Fifth Third, Barclays, Louisiana-based Origin Bancorp and Texas-based Triumph Financial have said they would take write-downs.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology's preliminary draft helps banks integrate artificial intelligence into their existing security strategies.
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The regulator signed off on the transaction just two months after the banks applied to merge.
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Enova International, a nonbank lender in Chicago, plans to gain scale by taking over Grasshopper Bank's national bank charter. The deal already faces skepticism from critics of Enova's high-cost lending model.
The payments fintech reported an $8 billion valuation as it aims to establish a second global headquarters in Silicon Valley and expand into Europe and the U.K.
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