WASHINGTON - (08/27/04)-- As may be expected, the two membersof the NCUA Board, Republican JoAnne Johnson and Democrat DeborahMatz, display their political affiliations through theircheckbooks. Records filed with the Federal Election Commission,show Johnson, the co-chair of the Bush for President Campaign inIowa in 2000, has made two political contributions over $200 thiscycle, both to the Bush-Cheney campaign, for a total of $2,000.Matz, a protĚgĚ of Sen. Minority Leader Tom Daschle,has made four donations totaling $4,000 to the election campaign ofthe South Dakota Democrat; a $1,000 contribution to the Kerry forPresident campaign, and a $500 donation to the Dean for Presidentcampaign.
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JPMorganChase and Bank of America raised concerns about the proposed removal of risk-weighted assets from the denominator of the short-term wholesale funding component of the GSIB surcharge — changes backed by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reportedly plans to send the recently passed housing bill to the White House on Monday, starting a 10-day clock for the president to sign the bill.
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The global payments platform, which recently expanded to the U.S., also plans to build new autonomous finance and agentic commerce products.
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A new lawsuit seeking class-action status alleges that FirstBank Puerto Rico knowingly facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation by failing to enforce basic anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer rules.
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Pinnacle Financial Partners' headquarters is moving to a new 25-story office tower in Midtown Atlanta; New Jersey-based Provident Bank appoints Adriano Duarte to succeed Thomas Lyons as chief financial officer; Binance will shut down services for customers in France, Italy, Spain and Poland after the exchange withdrew its MiCA licence application in Greece; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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The bank is part of a trend of financial institutions trying to streamline a complicated industry that paper has dominated for years.
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