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TD Bank must pay more than $20 million to resolve investigations over a former trader's alleged placement of "spoof" orders to manipulate the Treasuries market.
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The $6.8 billion-asset institution partnered with FusionIQ to launch digitally advised and self-directed investment platforms as part of a push to attract and retain younger generations of consumers.
February 26 -
Version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework, often cited by financial regulators, provides a structured approach to enhancing an institution's cybersecurity.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it was invoking a special authority to supervise entities that pose risks to consumers in taking on World Acceptance Corp.
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Tipalti, Stax and Stripe are among those using new artificial intelligence tools as digital helpers for staff. The specifics vary based on each company's mission and level of comfort with the technology.
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BMO Financial Group doubled its mainframe capacity, prepared a cloud staging platform and used chaos engineering to ensure its Bank of the West integration went smoothly.
February 25
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.
The peak level of daylight overdrafts has diverged from the average level, which is usually a warning sign of reserve scarcity. This time it may be different.
Our annual list of the top five teams in banking.
When BMO acquired Bank of the West, BMO's integration team was tasked with completing more than 1,500 requirements to unify hundreds of systems, including products, services, technology and processes.
TD Bank must pay more than $20 million to resolve investigations over a former trader's alleged placement of "spoof" orders to manipulate the Treasuries market.
The peak level of daylight overdrafts has diverged from the average level, which is usually a warning sign of reserve scarcity. This time it may be different.
Our annual list of the top five teams in banking.
When BMO acquired Bank of the West, BMO's integration team was tasked with completing more than 1,500 requirements to unify hundreds of systems, including products, services, technology and processes.
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.
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The top five bank M&A deals had a combined target asset volume of more than $480 billion
February 28 -
Bharat Masrani has spent a decade as the Canadian bank's top executive and is pushing 70. But as the bank undergoes a U.S. Justice Department probe, it's unclear when he'll step down or who's next in line.
February 27 -
Some legal experts say the U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to favor national rules preempting state regulations in the Bank of America in a case regarding mortgage escrow accounts.
February 27 -
CEO Charlie Scharf has added another former JPMorgan Chase colleague to his leadership team as his shake-up of Wells Fargo continues. The hire of veteran investment banker Doug Braunstein comes as Scharf makes progress on his efforts to grow Wells' investment bank.
February 27 -
Helping programmers become more productive, modernizing legacy systems and conducting compliance assessments are among the hundreds of gen AI use cases in production or in the pipeline for Shadman Zafar, co-CIO for Citi and lead for the bank's generative AI work.
February 27