The bank is reportedly considering allowing bitcoin and ethereum to back loans. Volatility in digital assets would make it a difficult market, according to payment experts.
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The payments company hopes to build its brand outside of its U.K. home base while attracting a deeper investor pool.
June 5
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Banks that are financing the rise of nonbank competitors have been losing market share in commercial lending. But by getting in on the action, the same banks are also seeing some payoff.
June 5
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The Senate voted to confirm Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman's nomination to be the vice chair for supervision at the central bank in a 48-46 party-line vote.
June 4
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The first-of-its-kind growth restriction established a new precedent for how regulators can address a broken bank culture. With scant information about why the cap was lifted, the action provides little clarity on what Wells did right — or what the Fed did wrong.
June 4
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Freedom Bank is rolling out Freedom@Work, which offers perks for employees of participating companies, as part of a wider strategy to attract more consumer deposits.
June 4
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The card network behemoths and the London-based bank are looking to expand account-to-account payments through fresh partnerships and investments. Plus: President Trump withdraws Shift4 CEO's NASA nomination, and tokenized payments gain steam in Europe in this week's global payments roundup.
June 4
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House lawmakers discussed the recently introduced market structure bill, with Democrats expressing concerns that the bill could enable banks to evade securities laws.
June 4
The Evansville, Indiana-based bank has hired Tim Burke to oversee commercial and community banking, along with wealth, credit and marketing.
After edging past Wall Street's estimates, the Cleveland-based bank expressed higher hopes for its loan book as well as the macro environment.
The bank is reportedly considering allowing bitcoin and ethereum to back loans. Volatility in digital assets would make it a difficult market, according to payment experts.
Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.
Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.
Among banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets, those that targeted narrow lending markets rose to the top.
The credit card issuer renewed and extended its 15-year partnership with Amazon and touted fresh partnerships with Walmart and PayPal as wins, but lowered its full-year guidance due to lower purchase volumes and higher payment rates.
Amit currently works as Vice President, Underwriting Product Management, at Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA).
With more than 24 years of management experience in various Fortune 500 Technology & Insurance companies, Amit brings global expertise in product management, AI, and risk analytics to benefit the insurance industry.
He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an Engineering degree, with majors in Electronics. He also has a certification in Intellectual Property and Global Dispute Resolution from Columbia Law School. Amit also serves as a faculty at Fu Foundation School of Engineering, Columbia University, where he teaches AI and Applied Risk Analytics.
He holds multiple granted patents in the field of AI that have direct commercial applicability in underwriting and claims optimization use cases. He also serves on multiple boards, including the ITC Advisory Board.
The bank is reportedly considering allowing bitcoin and ethereum to back loans. Volatility in digital assets would make it a difficult market, according to payment experts.
The credit card issuer renewed and extended its 15-year partnership with Amazon and touted fresh partnerships with Walmart and PayPal as wins, but lowered its full-year guidance due to lower purchase volumes and higher payment rates.
Amit currently works as Vice President, Underwriting Product Management, at Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA).
With more than 24 years of management experience in various Fortune 500 Technology & Insurance companies, Amit brings global expertise in product management, AI, and risk analytics to benefit the insurance industry.
He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an Engineering degree, with majors in Electronics. He also has a certification in Intellectual Property and Global Dispute Resolution from Columbia Law School. Amit also serves as a faculty at Fu Foundation School of Engineering, Columbia University, where he teaches AI and Applied Risk Analytics.
He holds multiple granted patents in the field of AI that have direct commercial applicability in underwriting and claims optimization use cases. He also serves on multiple boards, including the ITC Advisory Board.
Alan Childs pleaded guilty to using straw borrowers and falsified loan records to help a timber businessman secure millions in fraudulent loans.
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.
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.
- Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says the Trump administration seems intent on shutting the agency down, even though it has a legal mandate to exist.Sponsored by IntraFi
- Crypto-as-a-service, stablecoins and tokenized deposits all present opportunities for banks, according to Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital.Sponsored by IntraFi
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Tech leaders explain how they're trying to use artificial intelligence to better understand customers and communicate with them, without seeming robotic.
June 6
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NB Bancorp's deal for Provident Bancorp is the fourth announced in the Bay State since December. It comes nearly three years after bad crypto mining loans led to massive losses at Provident.
June 6
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The Banking Committee's portion of the Senate budget bill would eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ability to request funding from the Federal Reserve, a move that goes further than House Republicans' version of the bill.
June 6
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Congressional Democrats offered a bill Friday requiring the Treasury Department to apply the anti-money-laundering requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act more fully and help educate small businesses on how to comply with reporting of beneficial ownership information.
June 6
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Bethany Corum succeeds Tom Barron as president of Capital City Bank; Independent Bank Corp. plans to finalize purchase of in-state rival, Enterprise Bancorp; Customers Bank taps Mark McCollom to take over as chief financial officer; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
June 6
