HARTFORD, Conn. – A Haitian immigrant has agreed to plead guilty to a scheme to cash tens of thousands of dollars in stolen tax refund checks at Navy FCU.
Jeane Andre Aine, known as "Papoosh," hired runners to cash the stolen tax checks at the Navy Fed branch in Groton, Conn. The checks were made out to residents of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Aine, who lives in Brooklyn, pled guilty to a single count of bank fraud.
Roughly 680 customers were affected, none in the U.S. But the control that failed at Revolut is the legal intake queue every American bank runs.
The Federal Reserve's top regulator has the early returns from the report she commissioned on the 2023 bank failure and said it supports her call for new reporting practices among Fed supervisors.
The "near-prime" lending fintech Avant is seeking to become a full-service bank by filing for a national de novo bank charter with federal regulators.
The commerce company has made major inroads into embedded finance, a strategy that could get a boost from partnering with the social media giant's new AI agent.
Citadel Credit Union recently closed a $50 million loan on a Philadelphia office tower. It's part of a trend, as credit unions build their commercial real estate lending businesses.
State Street promotes Ann Fogarty to chief operating officer and names Mostapha Tahiri president of State Street Alpha; Florida's Portrait Bank expects to open for business on Saturday; Texas Capital Bancshares is on the lookout for a new chief risk officer following the departure of David Oman; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
