CHICAGO-Gregg Brown, founder and CEO of South Side Community FCU, has been named one of the Chicago Matters Global Visionaries by Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ. Founded in 2003, South Side Community FCU currently serves nearly 1,400 low-income residents in Chicago's South Side community. In just four years the credit union has grown to more than $4.1 million in assets.
I don't go in much for 9/11 retrospectives. I've never seen any documentaries about it, never seen any movies about it, never read any books. I don't need to. I saw the event itself.
Abacus Federal Savings Bank in Chinatown scrambled to reopen in the days following the World Trade Center attacks. The exercise resulted in the bank's first disaster-recovery plan.
Less than half the information banks share under the program relates to money laundering or terrorist financing, by Fincen's own count. Most is fraud.
New York's Arrow Financial and Pennsylvania's First Commonwealth Financial were seeing their insurance revenue grow before they announced agency purchases this week. Prior to 2025, banks were shedding their insurance agencies.
The AI company has debuted ChatGPT for Financial Services, an enterprise tool that may threaten the role of junior analysts at investment banks.
The USA Patriot Act passed on an overwhelming bipartisan basis in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, overhauling banks' involvement in anti-money-laundering efforts.
