SEATTLE – BECU said it is opening a new branch in the community of Lower Queen Anne in a site formerly hosting a Taco Del Mar fast-food shop.
The plans come as the credit union giant is closing two under-performing branches the West Seattle Admiral Safeway location and another in Alki.
Santander U.S. and Webster Financial are doing integration work in advance of their pending merger, including naming business-line leaders, the banks said in separate notes.
The FDIC board voted unanimously to issue a proposal putting a rebuttable ban on bank-issuers paying yield on stablecoins, another narrowing AML requirements and a third prohibiting examiners using reputational risk in exams, outside of operational or financial risks.
The neobank is rolling out Chime Prime, a new membership service that rewards customers for making Chime their primary bank account.
The Minneapolis-based company plans to leverage the arrangement to draw more attention to its growing list of national business lines, transcending its regional reputation.
Swiss banking giant UBS tried to get a federal court to reject new allegations that Credit Suisse, which UBS acquired in 2023, had concealed Nazi-linked assets.
Jamie Dimon said the revised Basel III plan still overstates risk and penalizes the largest banks.
