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Carrie Tolstedt, scheduled to be sentenced Friday for her role in the company's phony-accounts scandal, has already paid for her crime and should receive three years probation, her attorneys argue in a sentencing memo. Prosecutors have recommended a year in prison.

A new model rates large banks on their efforts to develop and deploy artificial intelligence technology. 

Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., pressed one witness to say that bank regulators' Basel III endgame proposal, which would raise capital significantly for the largest banks, may have violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

Lee Reams Sr. is the co-founder of TaxBuzz, a vertical search engine and online community for taxpayers and tax professionals. In addition to being an expert on individual taxation and a respected speaker on tax-related topics, he has managed his own 600-plus client tax practice. He has served on numerous professional boards, including the California Tax Education Council, California State Enrolled Agent Society, and the San Fernando Valley Society of Enrolled Agents. He currently oversees a sizeable technical support forum, functioning as the tax research and answer guru for the profession's most complex tax issues.

Instead, the Canadian bank will try to ramp up its current strategy, which includes growth in commercial lending and technology upgrades, as well as streamline management. 

Executives at Citizens Financial Group and community banks such as Seattle Bank and Citizens Bank of Edmond say there are potential use cases for large language models. Yet they have concerns that impersonal service and likely errors could erode customers' faith in their financial institutions.

Scott Syphax is CEO of Syphax Strategic Solutions, an advisory firm specializing in board governance, strategic planning and advisory services for national public and private organizations.

Revenue challenges are driving the Utah bank's plan to reduce expenses, according to CEO Harris Simmons. "I talk to our peers, and everybody's looking for ways to cut costs," he said.

The secretive world of private credit is increasingly being funded by public money, and there will be no FDIC there to bail us out when things go bad.