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The small Pennsylvania regional signed up four cryptocurrency services companies as customers this week. CEO Sam Sidhu says the bank's new platform is helping it win business in this highly specialized market.

The Cooperative Bank in Massachusetts is working with the tech startup Carefull to monitor accounts for signs that older clients are being swindled by scammers — including people close to them.

Michelle Moore, head of consumer digital at Wells Fargo, is leading development of an entirely new banking app and a virtual assistant named Fargo that will roll out next year.

The 44 large bank and insurance company partners of the Fintech Innovation Lab are inviting startups whose technology can help them manage cybersecurity threats as well as handle climate change metrics and other growing needs to join the lab's next cohort.

The technology from the San Francisco loan software company will pre-populate loan applications with payroll and tax data from multiple sources.

While federal agencies debate how to regulate cryptocurrency-related businesses, Wyoming and Nebraska have already created a special-purpose charter, and Illinois is close to finalizing its own.

The cryptocurrency exchange, which has been embroiled in a dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission, says the federal government should create a stand-alone body to supervise the marketplace for digital assets.

Talwar, who is leaving his job as chairman of Goldman's consumer bank this month, explains his philosophy on innovating within a large organization, making a digital-only unit work within a 150-year-old institution, and how he deals with skeptics.

In addition to merger work and a data center consolidation, Guild’s combined team has been busy with several major tech initiatives this year.