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Dicier credit conditions, recession fears and tougher regulatory scrutiny combined to weaken merger activity in 2022. A push for scale is bound to resume when interest rates level off — at least among smaller banks, analysts say.

The top U.S. financial regulators are worried about the prospect of deeper ties between digital-asset firms and Wall Street.

The business being sold to Madison Dearborn Partners provides trustee and administrative services to asset managers and retirement plans.

Financial institutions have launched tailored relief campaigns to help refugees begin rebuilding their lives.

The crypto exchange Binance.US will buy Voyager Digital's assets out of bankruptcy in a deal worth $1.022 billion, a discount to an earlier, failed sale struck with FTX.

Investors are learning the hard way, again, that highflying new financial products, with little or no regulatory oversight, tend to crash.

Centralized development programs for new companies provide access to potential clients and investors.

The framework has little immediate impact in the U.S., where banks are broadly prohibited from crypto-related activities, but it establishes a baseline for future regulatory efforts.

A group of shareholders in the Dubuque, -Iowa-based bank, including a former chairman and CEO, have agreed to quit advocating for a sale of the $19.7 billion-asset company

Blair will succeed longtime executive Kessel Stelling as chairperson of the bank's board of directors after joining Synovus in 2016 and moving into the CEO position last April.

The National Defense Authorization Act passed by the Senate did not include a pot banking provision, but did include provisions on Fed master accounts and allowing banks to hire ex-cons.

The former chief innovation officer at Quontic Bank and American Banker's 2020 Digital Banker of the Year is offering seminars, a bank-fintech matchmaking platform and a fintech investment fund.

Goldman mulls deeper cuts, FDIC names fund leaders and more in banking news this week.

The outgoing chair of the House Financial Services Committee and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey led a new letter to the Government Accountability Office.

In a new survey, executives at banks and credit unions registered the highest level of anxiety about a forthcoming data-collection rule in small-business lending.