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Ripple promotes GM to president, Visa's tipping-tech tie-up and more in banking news this week.

Stripe, one of the world's most valuable startups, has hired JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Group as it explores options for raising liquidity.

Repo markets and the bank deposit business, in particular, would be upended if the U.S. were to default on its debt, experts say.

The decision does not end the digital-asset bank's goal of gaining access to the central bank's payment system, but it does make its road to approval more difficult.

JPMorgan Chase has a head start when it comes to developing and deploying artificial intelligence in banking, according to a new study. 

The U.S. payment companies say their tie-in to the Chinese digital wallet is a doorway to one of the biggest e-commerce audiences on the planet.

CEO Steve Squeri says many of these companies still employ more people than before the pandemic.

Technology that was seen as best-in-class 10 years ago is practically table stakes for banks today and does not differentiate one bank from another. Branches do.

Wells Fargo kept Chief Executive Charlie Scharf's pay at $24.5 million for 2022, a year in which both profit and stock tumbled and the bank continued to grapple with the fallout from a raft of scandals.

It is rare for banks, especially large ones, to receive unsatisfactory ratings in their Community Reinvestment Act examinations. The San Antonio bank has now done it twice in a row.

While not committing to any specific strategy, the card network may find opportunity in the merger and acquisition market, CEO Al Kelly said.

The San Antonio bank reported an 89% spike in net income, aided by rising interest rates and the company's expansion into Dallas and Houston.

The company formerly known as Alliance Data Systems produced strong fourth-quarter sales, but was unable to report a profit due to factors such larger loan-loss reserves for its acquisition of the American Automobile Association's credit card portfolio.

North Carolina-based First Citizens blamed a rise in problem credit on certain office loans that it acquired in the CIT Group merger. Connecticut-based Webster also expressed caution about the segment, which has been impacted by remote work policies.

As deposits grow scarcer, the Stamford, Connecticut-based bank's acquisition of interLINK earlier this month promises to yield billions of dollars in core funding it can put to work paying down borrowings or purchasing securities, CEO John Ciulla says.