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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard's reported speaking engagement at an invitation-only private event hosted by Citigroup last Friday may have violated the central bank's communications guidelines, central bank watchers said.

The data aggregator announced a product this week that allows banks to build data privacy portals, where consumers can see who has access to their account data.

Bank of Princeton in New Jersey said it would pay $25 million in cash to acquire Noah Bank, whose former CEO was convicted on charges that included bank bribery and theft.

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, will discuss bank taxes and the U.K.'s plans to boost the finance sector's competitiveness in a telephone call next week with U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt.

Deutsche Bank laid off dozens of origination and advisory staffers within its investment banking division globally as fears of a recession stymie dealmaking, according to a person with knowledge with the matter.

Pricing discipline at the Georgia bank contributed to a 3.5% quarter-over-quarter decline in deposits. To stem the tide, the company plans to lean into core deposits, brokered deposits and advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

If stablecoins facilitate payments in the future it could have broad implications, acting Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Martin Gruenberg said.

Any limitations on the distribution of pandemic relief and other payments are the result of instructions from the IRS, or the Federal Reserve's failure to operate a 24/7 payments system — and not shortcomings of the automated clearing house network, writes the head of Nacha.

Toronto-Dominion Bank's U.S. commercial lending chief sees loan demand growing even as the Federal Reserve aggressively hikes rates that are already at the highest since 2008. 

Decentralized finance, the once red-hot slice of the crypto universe that was at the center of this year's collapse of the digital-asset world, is facing a rapidly increasing new challenge: financial hacking.