HARRISBURG, Penn. - (11/23/05) Consumers who participated in aninstant cash rebate offer from a payday lender in theKeystone State are being urged by the Pennsylvania Department ofBanking to apply for reimbursement by Dec. 21. To get theinstant cash rebate from the Ace Pays website,consumers had to sign up for a one-year membership at a cost of $50to $1,000 per year, with the instant-rebate in the same amount.Those who accepted the offer were then charged a daily fee that wasdeducted from the deposit accounts that was the equivalent of anAPR of 630%.
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Synovus Financial demonstrated at an industry conference how it is using Microsoft's Copilot to help its staff address customers' concerns.
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The U.S. arm of Spanish banking giant Santander has hired Swati Bhatia to oversee retail banking and its digital transformation efforts. Bhatia joins at "an inflection point" for the company, which aims to be "a digital bank with branches," CEO Tim Wennes said.
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Mariya Rosberg is named Americas head of banking and financial services at Marsh McLennan's Oliver Wyman unit; startup ZayZoon raised $15 million in a new funding round; and more in the weekly banking news roundup.
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Last year, the Raleigh, N.C.-based Integrated called off a deal to sell itself to MVB Financial after bank stocks took a hit in the aftermath of the regional bank failures. Capital hopes to expand its government-guaranteed lending with the transaction.
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Once a prominent figure spurring financial institutions to engage in cryptocurrency, Bankman-Fried's downslide began with the collapse of the digital asset exchange FTX in late 2022 and hit rock bottom with his sentencing to 25 years in prison.
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But the 30-year fixed rate mortgage is still near 7%, and that remains the overhang on the housing market, Freddie Mac said.
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