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In a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the American Bankers Association rebuffed state regulators' calls to rescind the agency's broad state preemption rule, defending federal law's supremacy in the dual banking system.
May 29
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Umar Farooq and Max Neukirchen lead an $18 billion unit that touches most of the planet. Here's what they told American Banker about instant processing, how artificial intelligence is affecting jobs and what they look for in new leaders.
May 29
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The top five credit unions had more than $234 billion in loans and leases as of the end of Q4 2024.
May 29
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Analysts awaiting specifics on the "implicit guarantee" for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are split on whether mortgage rates and guarantee fees could rise.
May 29
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Navy Federal Credit Union's partnership with Bloom Credit, a data breach at Coinbase and other tech news draw attention from bankers going into June.
May 29
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
Seven of the 20 top-performing banks with $2 billion to $10 billion of assets last year were based in Texas. But it's not about being bigger.
Cincinnati-based First Financial scooped up Westfield Bank near Cleveland after Westfield's parent company decided to exit the bank space and focus on its core insurance business.
The wealth management and digital banking fintech is following in the footsteps of other fintech IPOs as the market rallies around Chime and Circle.
Since the end of COVID, each bank has set its own rules for how often employees need to show up at the office. Here's how a dozen lenders are handling the shift.
Cincinnati-based First Financial scooped up Westfield Bank near Cleveland after Westfield's parent company decided to exit the bank space and focus on its core insurance business.
The wealth management and digital banking fintech is following in the footsteps of other fintech IPOs as the market rallies around Chime and Circle.
Since the end of COVID, each bank has set its own rules for how often employees need to show up at the office. Here's how a dozen lenders are handling the shift.
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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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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Staking activities and stablecoins are two of the possible ways banks could have a role in decentralized finance, said Margaret Butler, head of the financial services practice at the law firm BakerHostetler and Kristiane Koontz, director of Treasury Services and Payments at Zions Bank, in interviews recorded at the Digital Banking Conference in June.
July 1
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The bank's LLM Suite, a portal through which all employees can use popular large language models, is American Banker's Innovation of the Year in the Generative AI category.
May 22
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Bond yields are shooting up for the second time in as many months. Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller attributes the volatility to concerns about rising national debt levels.
May 22
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Threat actors using artificial intelligence and other tools are putting a greater strain on banks' cybersecurity systems, and other institutions could be next.
May 22
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The multitrillion-dollar package would avert a year-end tax increase at the expense of adding to the U.S. debt burden.
May 22
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The state supreme court agreed to review the ruling in favor of a group of Wall Street banks that whistleblower Edelweiss said cost the state at least $100 million.
May 22
