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Each year, American Banker chooses five teams that embody the spirit of collaboration and illustrate how teamwork can have a substantial impact on a bank's top and bottom lines.

The goal of the regional banking team members is to partner across their respective business lines or service areas to bring in more clients to BofA and to better serve existing clients.

Led by chief SBA lending officer Anna Chung, the team oversees Hanmi's Small Business Administration lending operation, a longstanding component of the $7.8 billion-asset company's business model.

Led by Jennifer Warren, who serves as the head of Wilmington Trust, the teamwork resulted in over $2 billion in revenue expansion for the institutional client services division.

The bank launched Business Essentials, a bundled suite of banking and payment services, following more than a year of development by a cross-functional team from business banking, branch and small business banking, payments, sales and technology teams.

Since the completion of the One Ally project in the first half of 2025, the bank reported 10.5% net deposit growth from customers who initially were not deposit holders.

These bidding wars are likely to become more common as decentralized platforms build their own stablecoins — and choose partners to issue them, experts said.

Market watchers expect the Federal Open Market Committee to announce a 25 basis point rate cut today, but are also watching for signals of more cuts to come and how many members push for a larger 50 basis point cut.

A bill on reciprocal deposits passed the committee unanimously, while another measure on custodial deposits passed by a wide, bipartisan margin.

Starting Tuesday, the Spanish bank is allowing retail clients in Germany to trade Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Polygon and Cardano. Openbank will expand the number of available tokens over the coming months. 

The payment company has made a series of moves to bolster its stablecoin and other coins to build a market for digital assets. Its Links feature adds to the strategy.

Google has launched its Agent Payments Protocol, an open protocol that establishes a payment-agnostic framework for users, merchants and payments in agentic AI. Payment companies such as Adyen, American Express, Mastercard and PayPal helped develop the protocol.

Prosecutors say Daryl Heller lured 2,700 investors with promises of safe ATM profits but misappropriated $185 million.

The companies have signed a new data-sharing agreement that includes an undisclosed pricing structure. Plaid said it will not pass the new costs on to its clients.