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As federal watchdogs step back from regulating "Buy Now, Pay Later" loans, state authorities are stepping in. This week, the attorneys general from California and several other blue states joined the fight.
December 2
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The Troy, Michigan-based lender and servicer faces at least seven lawsuits over a hack in June allegedly perpetrated by a known ransomware gang.
December 2
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In a relatively mild oversight hearing in the House Financial Services Committee Tuesday morning, regulatory heads at the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, National Credit Union Administration and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. outlined plans for reduced capital requirements and debanking enforcement.
December 2
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South Plains Financial agreed to pay $105.1 million in stock to acquire a seven-year-old Houston community bank in its first M&A foray since 2019.
December 2
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Former Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig has written a book called The Mismeasurement of America that lays out the shortcomings of the standard economic data that U.S. government and businesses use to make decisions, and how this data obscures the truth about how low-income Americans are actually faring.
December 2
Pinnacle and Peapack-Gladstone have sought to preserve their corporate cultures during periods of major change.
Banks with more than $10 billion of assets made up 12% of American Banker's 2025 Best Banks to Work For list.
Of the 90 honorees on American Banker's 2025 Best Banks to Work For list, 28 had between $3 billion and $10 billion of assets.
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.
Growing loans was a tall order in 2024, but banks that could do just that were able to outperform their peers.
The agreement, if approved by a federal judge, would end litigation over two distinct cybersecurity incidents in 2021 which affected over 2 million customers.
The U.K. bank's "Scam Intelligence" tool uses Google's Gemini to analyze images and texts for red flags, aiming to reduce losses from authorized push payment fraud.
A Luxembourg court ruled against the bank in a long-running lawsuit tied to its custodial role for a fund that invested in the massive Ponzi scheme.
American Banker's Most Influential Women in Payments share their views on artificial intelligence, hybrid offices, real-time payments and more.
Honorees from 2024's Most Influential Women in Payments, representing companies such as MoneyGram, Walmart, Segpay and more, share insights into how how artificial intelligence is changing their companies and their industry.
In her day-to-day job directing activities at the card network's Start Path accelerator, Sabrina Tharani helps nurture companies that are developing new payments products and services.
- Tarkowski, managing partner at Actuate Law, shares a legal perspective on the lawsuit that savings app provider Yotta filed against Evolve Bank & Trust in September and recently amended.Sponsored by IntraFi
- Sid Khosla, EY Americas banking and capital markets leader, predicts that, over the next two years, 20% of generative AI cases will drive 80% of the value across financial institutions. In this podcast, he explains what those use cases are and how banks can make the most of them.Sponsored by IntraFi
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The bank is a step closer to having its own U.S. dollar-pegged cryptocurrency. It could become the first major financial institution to issue a stablecoin.
November 26
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Recent high-profile ethics violations by senior Federal Reserve officials, including new revelations concerning stock trades by former Fed Gov. Adriana Kugler, have sparked debate over the effectiveness of the central bank's oversight, even as some observers stress such cases remain rare.
November 26
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The Swedish financial technology firm issued its first stablecoin and signed a gift card distribution deal with BlackRock. Also, EMVCo is examining AI's impact on processing and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.
November 26
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U.S. commercial banks and savings banks have reduced employment by nearly 81,000 since the first quarter of 2023, including a net loss of 7,463 positions during the third quarter of this year, according to a new report from KRBA Financial Intelligence. Big banks, which have been embracing artificial intelligence, were big contributors to the decline.
November 26
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The activist investor HoldCo Asset Management alleges that Comerica and Fifth Third used a "flawed" process to arrive at a $10.9 billion merger agreement. On Tuesday, a Delaware judge said she will hold a hearing to determine if the banks omitted material information in their public disclosures.
November 25
