ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA issued a ruling last week that government-guaranteed bonds issued by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp., which help finance private-sector projects overseas, are permissible investments for FCUs. OPIC is an agency of the United States. Accordingly, obligations fully guaranteed by OPIC are permissible investments for FCUs, wrote General Counsel Michael McKenna in his legal opinion. The OPIC bonds, known as Certificates of Participation, carry a government guarantee.
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The move comes about a year after rising delinquency levels prompted SBA to raise lender fees and tightened underwriting standards in its flagship 7(a) program.
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Select ChatGPT users can now connect their bank accounts to the AI-powered chatbot for personal money management advice based on their financial history.
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Suncoast Credit Union moved from one-time identity checks to monitoring members for the life of the account. It says fraud losses fell more than a third.
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The $110 million settlement, which was mapped out last fall, requires Wells Fargo to establish a $100 million fund to provide downpayment and closing-cost assistance to eligible borrowers who live in or plan to buy a home in certain low- and moderate-income census tracts.
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Whether red or blue, leaders share an affinity for battling fintech giants, as the liberal mayor is pressuring regulators to scuttle Western Union's plan to buy digital transfer Intermex, shortly following PayPal's 'DEI settlement' with the Trump administration.
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Prashant Sharma, JPMorgan Payments' executive director of biometrics and identity solutions, spoke with American Banker about agentic commerce and how liability is shifting as a result of large language models.
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