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The Federal Reserve governor said the central bank should consider near-term rate hikes if core-measures of inflation continue to climb.

Joint guidance says borrowers unauthorized to work in the U.S. may present elevated credit risk and urges banks to account for immigration-related repayment uncertainty in underwriting. 

In the U.S., bankers are used to prescriptive rulemaking, and without it they seem uncertain about how to move forward with AI. Europe tried writing prescriptive AI rules, and they were a disaster. Now nobody knows how to move forward.

Kentland Federal became the third bank this year to fail; meanwhile, American Banker today publishes its list of the best-performing small banks.

Bipartisan pushback is targeting data centers with calls to eliminate tax breaks and ensure their energy consumption costs do not get passed on to residents.

In American Banker's ranking of banks with the strongest metrics, here is this year's list, based on 2025 data from Capital Performance Group.

The bipartisan housing package, dismissed by President Trump as a "yawn," takes effect automatically after he declined to sign it in protest over stalled voter ID legislation.

The failure of Kentland Federal Savings and Loan, the nation's smallest standalone bank at $3.7 million of assets, will cause an estimated $1.2 million hit to the deposit insurance fund, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Kentland's failure is the third bank failure in 2026.

The stablecoin issuer has received final approval from the federal agency to open a trust bank division for custody of digital assets.

The Denver-based bank reported that two loans soured, one due to fraud. A number of other lenders reported sizable fraud-related losses last fall.