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In global news this week, cash is on the rebound in the U.K., a Swiss nonprofit calls for digital business IDs, CIBC adds support for open banking, and more.

Huntington Bancshares has hired Shawn Lough, a veteran Truist Financial banker and West Point graduate, to help guide the sales strategy and goals of its consumer and business banking operation. It also expanded the duties of Digital Director Mark Sheehan to include deposits.

Moving its loan operations beyond its geographic footprint, California's US Metro Bank shot up in our rankings of the best-performing community banks.

Despite an initial green light in 2019, regulators with the Virginia State Corporation Commission ultimately decided the credit union's plan to add members lacked merit.

Bank advocates say that stark government scrutiny of bank forays into digital assets has been misplaced and that if the administration would like to see responsible innovation in crypto, the banking system could be the place to do it.

After naming a new CEO in March, the San Francisco bank has filled the second of two leadership voids created by executive resignations at the start of the year.

More than 250 midsize and large companies that do business with BofA have signed up for its corporate employee banking and investing program, which pulls double duty as a retention tool for the companies and a customer-growth engine for the bank. The initiative is part of a wave of such offerings by regional and large banks.

The pandemic-era freeze on student debt payments has "dramatically" improved credit scores for Americans who borrowed money to pay for college, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said.

Chairman and CEO Craig Dwight is counting on the Indiana company's new president, Thomas Prame, to pursue nonbank acquisition targets after it scooped up more than a dozen banks in the past decade.

Websites such as Credit Karma and LendingTree, which work closely with financial institutions, have had to rethink their strategies to bounce back from the pandemic.