HOUSTON, Texas -- The former CEO of Deer Park FCU was sentenced to six years in state jail for stealing almost $220,000 from the credit union. Dawne Wilson, 43, was manager and sole employee of the one-time $9 million credit union located inside City Hall from 2004 to 2011 and handled the daily operations without any direct supervision. She began stealing from the credit union in January 2007 and the theft went undetected until 2011 when an outside audit uncovered evidence of fraudulent loan activity. Wilson stole the money using a variety of methods including funding fake loans using member’s names or fictitious names and depositing the proceeds to her personal account.
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A new lawsuit seeking class-action status alleges that FirstBank Puerto Rico knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation by failing to enforce basic anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer rules.
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Pinnacle Financial Partners' headquarters is moving to a new 25-story office tower in Midtown Atlanta; New Jersey-based Provident Bank appoints Adriano Duarte to succeed Thomas Lyons as chief financial officer; Binance will shut down services for customers in France, Italy, Spain and Poland after the exchange withdrew its MiCA licence application in Greece; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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The bank is part of a trend of financial institutions trying to streamline a complicated industry that paper has dominated for years.
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Speaking at the New York Federal Reserve's Innovation Conference on Friday, New York Department of Financial Services acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow said the regulator was interested in maintaining long-standing consumer protections as AI adoption increases.
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Banks face conceptual, operational and other hurdles that threaten further adoption of real-time payments.
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Five Star Bank near Sacramento plans to expand in Lodi, an agricultural hub in the Golden State's Central Valley region. The lender's growth push comes as the number of farm banks has been shrinking.
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