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Remote deposit capabilities have vastly improved banking services for residents of villages in western Alaska. But unreliable service means some face difficulties when trying to access their banking apps or make payments.

Amber Setter is the chief enlightenment officer for Conscious Public Accountants, whose mission is to guide accountants back to their wholeness. She is a national expert on building coaching cultures within the accounting profession. Her professional experience includes serving as an internal and external coach, facilitating and coaching within leadership development experiences, and building a nationally recognized learning and development function. She holds a Masters in Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego and a Bachelors in Business Administration, Accounting from San Jose State University. She is a graduate of Accomplishment Coaching — an ICF accredited Coaches Training Program — and also completed their Advanced Leadership Program as a Mentor Coach. She is an inactive CPA and an ICF Professional Certified Coach, and was recognized by CalCPA as a Woman to Watch in the Experienced Leader Category.

Micron's planned semiconductor chip factory near Syracuse along with IBM's expansion project in the Hudson Valley could inject as much as $120 billion into markets inside the footprint of the combined NBT Bancorp and Salisbury Bancorp. NBT CEO John Watt calls the economic investments a "transformational opportunity" for the region.

Employees of a Lake Michigan Credit Union branch say they're fighting to organize after upper management failed to respond to their complaints about pay disparity, COVID-19 benefits and more.

The deal is the banking titan's latest investment in fintech.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., have joined forces to subject regional Fed banks to heightened public scrutiny. How long the coalition lasts depends on what that new scrutiny reveals.

Regulators are chastising banks for compliance lapses among their fintech partners. But some say the software companies that connect them share some responsibility.

Acting Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Martin Gruenberg's nomination passed the panel in a 13-11 vote.

Nikkee Rhody, chief of strategy at Central Payments, and Shannon Huether, vice president of project management and implementations, explain how the company tailored every aspect of its hiring practice to make sure it reaches the talented women that other fintechs overlook.

FTX's new chief executive, John J. Ray, described shoddy accounting processes and a core group of inexperienced leaders that contributed to the crypto exchange's collapse.