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The Texas-based community bank is turning itself into a "digital asset financial institution" as the Trump administration pushes crypto-friendly policy and other banks make their bids.

KeyCorp CEO Chris Gorman said Tuesday that the bank has doubled its buyback plans for the fourth quarter and laid out a new long-term profitability target. The comments came a few days after HoldCo Asset Management issued a scathing report about the bank's performance.

Phillip Toews is the CEO and a portfolio manager of the Toews Funds and Toews Agility Shares ETFs. He is a co-founder of the Behavioral Investing Institute and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV/Radio, Fox Business News and is quoted frequently in financial publications. His most recent book is "The Behavioral Portfolio: Managing Portfolios and Investor Behavior in a Complex Economy" (Harriman House 2025).

Josephine Robinson is the information security director at Codat.

Jessica Tang is the senior legal counsel at Codat.

Democratic senators are calling for Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott to compel the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to testify.

In a new interpretive letter, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will allow banks to serve as middlemen for "riskless" crypto trades, extending existing brokerage authority for securities to digital assets.

New rules means sellers and servicers will need to have plans demonstrating proper oversight of their artificial intelligence and machine learning practices.

The administration's haphazard overhaul of financial regulatory bodies has produced confusion and uncertainty. What regulators should be prioritizing now is bringing a sense of stability to the industry.

The discussions are expected to focus on bankers' opposition to allowing interest payments on stablecoins, along with the ability of banks to compete in the crypto space and preventing the use of cryptocurrencies to facilitate illegal activities.