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  • Payments
    JPMorgan payment execs share plans for Europe, Middle East and Africa

    The people leading the bank's strategy for EMEA are placing greater emphasis on real-time processing, digital assets, and emerging contactless technology.

    By John Adams
    Executive Editor, Payments
    February 2
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  • Wells Fargo investigation
    Chapter 3: Heads in the sand

    The bank establishes a committee with the express purpose of addressing employee misconduct. But as the problem of unauthorized customer accounts grows, it stops meeting.

    By Kevin Wack
    Banking Editor
    February 2
    Alarm bells, arrogance and the crisis at Wells Fargo - 420 Montgomery - Crop
  • Consumer banking
    Credit card stocks fall after CFPB's $8 late fee proposal

    A plan released Wednesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was more aggressive than anticipated, leading to share price declines at Synchrony Financial, Capital One and Bread Financial. "This skews toward the worst-case scenario," one analyst wrote.

    By Polo Rocha
    Staff Writer
    February 1
    Synchrony - Capital One - Bread Financial
  • Consumer banking
    Small-dollar consumer loans gain steam at large banks

    In a reversal from five years ago, six of the eight biggest U.S. banks by branch count now offer the loans, which observers see as safer alternatives to payday loans.

    By Allissa Kline
    Reporter
    February 1
    Regions - Truist - Wells Fargo
  • BankThink Banks need to pick up the innovation torch as fintechs fade

    The current interest rate environment advantages banks over their fintech competitors. That can't be allowed to stifle invention.

    February 1
    Peter Lord
    Peter Lord
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  • Wells Fargo investigation
    Chapter 2: "Rainbows and butterflies"

    The scandal's roots stretch back more than a decade. In a corporate environment that doesn't welcome bad news, problems fester.

    By Kevin Wack
    Banking Editor
    February 1
    Alarm bells, arrogance and the crisis at Wells Fargo - branch photo
  • Consumer banking
    New York Community quickly downsizes its newly bought mortgage unit

    The Long Island company is closing 69% of the retail home lending offices previously operated by Flagstar Bancorp. New York Community recently acquired Flagstar for $2.6 billion.

    By Allissa Kline
    Reporter
    January 31
    New York Community Bank - Flagstar Bank
  • Payments
    Swift aims to be a bridge for digital currencies

    The international messaging system is participating in projects that test or develop central bank digital currencies, with a goal of making them interoperable.

    By John Adams
    Executive Editor, Payments
    January 31
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  • Cryptocurrency
    'We're leveling up': Anchorage Digital Bank restructures

    One of the few crypto companies to receive a banking charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Anchorage is putting more people and resources into compliance.

    Penny Crosman Cropped
    By Penny Crosman
    Executive Editor, Technology at Arizent
    January 31
    Georgia Quinn and Rachel Anderika, Anchorage Digital
  • Corporate governance
    How bank executives can avoid scandals

    Corporate-governance and ethics experts offer tips to avoid management wrongdoing at all levels of a bank.

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    By Chana Schoenberger
    Editor-in-Chief
    January 31
    How Bank Execs Avoid Scandals
  • Wells Fargo investigation
    Chapter 1: A turbulent departure

    As the phony-accounts scandal is brewing in 2014, the executive who functions as the top cop inside Wells Fargo gets shown the door.

    By Kevin Wack
    Banking Editor
    January 31
    Alarm Bells, Arrogance and the Crisis at Wells Fargo - Chapter 1 hero image
  • Wells Fargo investigation
    Editor's Note: Why the Wells Fargo fake-accounts scandal matters to all bankers

    The giant bank's woes, and punishment, began years ago — and still linger today. Revisiting the saga's origins now yields several important lessons.

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    By Chana Schoenberger
    Editor-in-Chief
    January 31
    Wells Fargo Reports Record Profit As Credit Improves
  • Regulation and compliance
    Banks say CFPB's data access rule ratchets up liability risks

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data-access rule could create an uneven playing field because banks and credit unions are examined by regulators but hundreds of nonbank fintechs are not.

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    By Kate Berry
    Reporter
    January 30
    Rohit Chopra
  • Community banking
    Bankers see pockets of strength amid recession indicators

    Indexes show heightened expectations for a recession and souring loans. But executives are upbeat about middle-market businesses and overall job growth.

    By Jim Dobbs
    Deputy Editor, Community Banks
    January 30
    Open business sign
  • Payments
    Marqeta makes a $275 million bet on embedded finance

    The company's first-ever acquisition, of Power Finance, will allow it to fuel a banking-as-a-service model for credit cards and other financial products under the direction of its new CEO, Simon Khalaf.

    By John Adams
    Executive Editor, Payments
    January 30
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  • BankThink There's a surprising risk lurking in the details of bank mergers

    Banks need to be cautious about negotiating pre-merger Community Benefit Agreements with nationwide activist groups. The deals carry real reputational hazard.

    January 30
    Kenneth H. Thomas
    Kenneth H. Thomas
  • Artificial Intelligence
    How banks should deal with AI's risks, according to NIST

    An AI framework released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology this week is the government's advice on coping with pitfalls and making the software trustworthy.

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    By Penny Crosman
    Executive Editor, Technology at Arizent
    January 27
  • College planning
    'A huge mistake': Lessons from the JPMorgan-Frank fintech deal

    JPMorgan Chase alleges in a lawsuit that the college-planning website Frank provided misleading information before the bank bought it. Experts say there were plenty of red flags from the beginning.

    By Miriam Cross
    Tech Reporter
    January 27
    Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase
  • Politics and policy
    Debt default would make Lehman bankruptcy 'look like a walk in the park'

    Repo markets and the bank deposit business, in particular, would be upended if the U.S. were to default on its debt, experts say.

    Claire Williams, staff writer, American Banker
    By Claire Williams
    Reporter
    January 27
    Kevin McCarthy
  • Payments
    How Splitit and Checkout.com's Alipay partnership opens new markets

    The U.S. payment companies say their tie-in to the Chinese digital wallet is a doorway to one of the biggest e-commerce audiences on the planet.

    By John Adams
    Executive Editor, Payments
    January 27
    A sign for digital payment service Ant Financial's Alipay.
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