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Americans are going to invest in crypto no matter what politicians and regulators think. So, it would be better to keep crypto exchanges in the U.S., and under SEC supervision, than to drive them overseas.

Curt Farmer, CEO of the Dallas company, defends its management of a Treasury Department program that provides federal benefits on prepaid cards. He says a recent American Banker investigative article "ignores the fact that Comerica took steps to protect Direct Express users when it became aware that a third-party vendor had not followed program protocols for reviewing customer inquiries."

The ill-conceived proposed rule would increase costs for a significant majority of credit card customers.

A full accounting of regulators' actions in the lead-up to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, as well as other recent bank failures, is necessary to restore public confidence in both the banking system and the government itself.

Comerica's shoddy handling of its Treasury contract to manage Social Security and veterans benefits — including outsourcing fraud claims to a vendor in Pakistan — is emblematic of how the banking industry treats the poor.

The banks that succeed in keeping top talent, from the branch to the corporate headquarters, do it by facilitating and encouraging employees' professional development.

Like it or not, Big tech is going to become a player in financial services. It would be better to write rules now than to wait for a crisis.

Stakeholders have been focused on what went wrong in the months before Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by regulators. However, essential risk management was missed more than a year ago.

To strengthen the industry, large regional banks should be subjected to heightened supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. should change how it assesses deposit insurance premiums.

Pledges to get to net-zero funded emissions by 2050 appear to be falling by the wayside as oil companies expand their fossil fuel extraction operations.