- .(01/31/02) - NCUA said it has hired Gail Galvan, a lobbyist forauditor KPMG Peat Marwick, as its congressional lobbyist. Galvan isscheduled to join the agency Feb. 11. She will serve as juniorlobbyist under Public and Congressional Affairs Director CliffordNorthup. The position has been vacant since the February 2001departure of Elizabeth Wirick.
Federal prosecutors have sought records and account closure data from banks as the Trump administration continues to clash with the industry.
The super-regional bank is increasingly building AI on its own. The point, CEO Bill Demchak said this week, is not just to foster innovation but to protect the bank from rising costs.
The blockchain fintech acquired the real estate lender through a joint venture to tokenize housing loans and test its new AI-powered onboarding agent.
With the big card networks and Coinbase pushing the new form of artificial intelligence, the blockchain company is offering a tool kit to enable AI agents to perform transactions.
A federal judge let fraud claims against Meta proceed, finding its AI ad tools may have helped build ads that impersonated a Bank of America executive.
Oklahoma City-based BancFirst agreed to pay an undisclosed sum for SpiritBank. The deal comes just seven months after the buyer completed another in-state acquisition.
