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The company's fourth-quarter trading revenue declined notably more than analysts had expected, while its business and consumer lending each dropped 1% year over year.

Daily edition for January 14, 2022

President Biden will nominate Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for Supervision and Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson to be governors. The selections keep a Biden promise to improve diversity at the Fed.

Citigroup is offloading its consumer-banking businesses in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam as CEO Jane Fraser continues her push to simplify the New York-based bank.

Under an agreement with 40 state attorneys general, the student lender and servicer agreed to cancel debt for over 66,000 borrowers and pay restitution to another 350,000 borrowers placed in certain types of forbearance.

Fed Gov. Lael Brainard, President Biden's nominee for Federal Reserve vice chair, sought to assure GOP members of the Senate Banking Committee she favors a more limited supervisory approach that would help larger banks identify pockets of risk in their loan portfolios.

The company sold small businesses a credit-building product that fell short of its promises, and also failed to help them fix inaccuracies in their credit reports, according to the Federal Trade Commission. D&B has agreed to give refunds to many customers.

Steve Bouras, who joined the credit union in 2016 as its vice president, took over for retiring CEO Brad Johnson.

UniCC is the the largest dark web vendor of stolen credit cards, with $358 million in purchases made through the market since 2013 using cryptocurrencies, according to a blockchain forensics firm.

Challenger banks like Chime and Dave have been helping customers avoid overdraft fees for years. As traditional banks start to do the same, the fintechs say they still offer consumers a better deal.