The mortgage industry's digital transformation is revolutionizing the home buying experience and upending the status quo for lenders and servicers. The Digital Mortgage Conference is the premiere event exclusively dedicated to these developments, bringing over 1,500 professionals to Las Vegas on Sept. 17-18 for keynote speakers, panels and the main attraction: live product demos showcasing the latest mortgage innovations.
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High deposit costs and low-yielding assets weighed on the company's net interest income, which fell to its weakest level since the first quarter of 2017. But Key executives predicted that a turnaround is coming soon.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposal would give consumers a legal right to grant third parties access to financial data for a specific use, but firms cannot sell the data or use it for their own benefit — including by feeding it into algorithms or artificial intelligence.
October 19
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Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., again pressed the Federal Reserve for economic analysis of capital proposals, while Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., reintroduced a bill that would limit the Fed's ability to extend money to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
October 19
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Six weeks after unveiling a broad restructuring plan, the North Carolina bank said it has already taken several steps to lower expenses, and that various cost-reduction initiatives are on parallel paths.
October 19
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The Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision says the failure of Silicon Valley Bank showed the shortcomings of the current stress testing regime.
October 19
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Consumers with Discover cards spent less on travel and everyday purchases, but more on entertainment, driving loan growth in the third quarter. The company also benefited from the Fed's enforcement of online debit-routing rules, but these boons couldn't offset investor concerns over its issues with the FDIC and its CEO search.
October 19
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After scrambling to launch bots in the early pandemic, banks including Fifth Third and KeyBank are taking the time to thoughtfully design intelligent digital assistants with better navigation and seamless handoffs to human agents.
October 19
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Heeren joined Gradient AI to grow its engineering team and build world-class machine learning offerings. He brings over 30 years of leadership experience building and leading both engineering and product teams across a wide range of industries and problem domains.
Prior to Gradient AI, Heeren was the Chief Technology Officer at Vestmark, where he was recognized as a thought-leader in the wealth management industry and is active in a wide range of industry associations and initiatives, chairing a number of industry committees. He has also served in leadership roles at a number of public and start-up companies including Vignette Corporation, Simulation Sciences Corp., Workgroup Technology Corporation, and MITRE Corporation.
Heeren holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and a MS in Computer Engineering from Boston University.
October 19
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The founder of an ETF that tracks all American public companies with female CEOs sits down with American Banker Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger to discuss why it matters if a company has a woman as CEO.
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The Department of Justice alleged that Ameris failed to open a single bank branch or provide home loans in minority neighborhoods in Jacksonville, Florida. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that many similar redlining investigations are currently underway.
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