Through a nonprofit called Greater NY, early career analysts at banks can apply their financial skills at charities and other civic-minded organizations. The partnerships give free help to nonprofits, but provide surprising benefits to the banks as well.
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The agency is weighing costly infrastructure needs, fraud risks and long-term decline in check use as it solicits public input on the possibility of winding down checks following an executive order phasing out paper in federal payments.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced Friday that they are withdrawing from a 2013 interagency leveraged lending guidance, arguing it was overly restrictive, pushed activity to nonbanks and sidestepped official rulemaking.
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The Trump administration's decision not to seek funding for the CFPB and transferring remaining enforcement cases to the Department of Justice were cited as reasons for the resignation of Michael G. Salemi, who took over as CFPB enforcement chief earlier this year.
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The state is requiring merchants to accept cash denominations of $20 and under and prohibits them from charging extra to accept cash. The law, which goes into effect in March, comes as merchants are responding to the Trump administration's abrupt cancellation of penny production.
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A bipartisan housing provision has emerged as a critical negotiating point for passage of an uncommonly bank-relevant defense authorization bill.
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More than 400,000 consumers may be affected after Marquis Software Solutions suffered a breach traced to a bug in SonicWall software disclosed last year.
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Midland States Bancorp has completed three major asset sales in the past 12 months, exiting national business lines and shifting focus to its core community banking franchise.
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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.
Mark Rieder serves as Head of Innovation at NFP, where he has spent over 15 years driving strategic technology and benefits administration solutions. With three decades of experience in the insurance and employee benefits industry, Mark's expertise spans the full lifecycle of insurance and benefits delivery, positioning him as a trusted advisor in navigating the evolving landscape of insurance advisory and benefits administration. He helped launch NFP's Innovation efforts, authored multiple articles and white papers, regularly speaks at industry events, and sits on a number of HRTech/Insurtech advisory boards.
Through a nonprofit called Greater NY, early career analysts at banks can apply their financial skills at charities and other civic-minded organizations. The partnerships give free help to nonprofits, but provide surprising benefits to the banks as well.
Federal Reserve watchers expect a board of governors vote in February to reappoint the 12 regional Fed bank presidents — which is typically treated as a formality — to be the next flashpoint in the White House's effort to bring the central bank to heel.
Mark Rieder serves as Head of Innovation at NFP, where he has spent over 15 years driving strategic technology and benefits administration solutions. With three decades of experience in the insurance and employee benefits industry, Mark's expertise spans the full lifecycle of insurance and benefits delivery, positioning him as a trusted advisor in navigating the evolving landscape of insurance advisory and benefits administration. He helped launch NFP's Innovation efforts, authored multiple articles and white papers, regularly speaks at industry events, and sits on a number of HRTech/Insurtech advisory boards.
Through a nonprofit called Greater NY, early career analysts at banks can apply their financial skills at charities and other civic-minded organizations. The partnerships give free help to nonprofits, but provide surprising benefits to the banks as well.
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.
Mark Rieder serves as Head of Innovation at NFP, where he has spent over 15 years driving strategic technology and benefits administration solutions. With three decades of experience in the insurance and employee benefits industry, Mark's expertise spans the full lifecycle of insurance and benefits delivery, positioning him as a trusted advisor in navigating the evolving landscape of insurance advisory and benefits administration. He helped launch NFP's Innovation efforts, authored multiple articles and white papers, regularly speaks at industry events, and sits on a number of HRTech/Insurtech advisory boards.
Through a nonprofit called Greater NY, early career analysts at banks can apply their financial skills at charities and other civic-minded organizations. The partnerships give free help to nonprofits, but provide surprising benefits to the banks as well.
Mark Rieder serves as Head of Innovation at NFP, where he has spent over 15 years driving strategic technology and benefits administration solutions. With three decades of experience in the insurance and employee benefits industry, Mark's expertise spans the full lifecycle of insurance and benefits delivery, positioning him as a trusted advisor in navigating the evolving landscape of insurance advisory and benefits administration. He helped launch NFP's Innovation efforts, authored multiple articles and white papers, regularly speaks at industry events, and sits on a number of HRTech/Insurtech advisory boards.
Through a nonprofit called Greater NY, early career analysts at banks can apply their financial skills at charities and other civic-minded organizations. The partnerships give free help to nonprofits, but provide surprising benefits to the banks as well.
An apparent increase in large-scale borrower fraud and the hot environment for bank mergers were the key themes as banks discussed their third-quarter results.
Following a $60 million credit hit, the Salt Lake City bank said that it hasn't found any other related problem loans.
Regional banks say their asset quality is solid amid skittish investors. The KBW Nasdaq Regional Banking Index was largely stable Friday after falling by as much as 7% the day before.
After a three-decade climb up the corporate ladder, Reda took on her most daunting task yet: launching the card network's new consumer banking unit.
Associate partner Mary Ann Francis is a risk taker — the kind who jumps off a waterfall without a parachute. She brings this same boldness to her work at IBM, where her decades of banking experience help the tech giant find new opportunities for artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
This year's Most Influential Women in Payments honorees are uniquely positioned to make the most of disruptive factors such as the advancement of artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies and real-time payments.

- Valerie Abend, Accenture's financial services cybersecurity lead, explains what banks get wrong about fending off AI-based threats and what they should do instead.sponsored by IntraFi
- Generative AI will remove toil from our day to day jobs, argues Lukic, who is managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group.Sponsored by IntraFi
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Royal Bank of Canada now expects to achieve an annual return on equity of at least 17% by 2027, executives said Wednesday, up one percentage point from the bank's earlier goal.
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Companies such as Google, Visa and Mastercard are building a framework that will allow AI agents to shop and make payments. There are signs that consumers are warming to the idea.
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The Toronto-based loan fintech received an IFE license from Puerto Rico to launch Propel Bank.
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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.
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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.
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