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If regulators push forward with plans to strengthen capital requirements for banks with more than $100 billion of assets, the nation's largest bank says, the cost of credit would rise and more consumers could seek out nontraditional lenders.

A draft piece of legislation would strike the section of Dodd-Frank that sets up the Federal Reserve's top banking cop.

Experts and industry leaders said banks are pumping investment into technology that can connect information silos.

Visa wants to expand in-car payments tech; Citizens Financial installs president to oversee growing California market; undergrads win banking competition and more in the weekly banking news roundup.

The bank's allowance for losses on commercial real estate loans jumped to $3.6 billion in the second quarter — up 64% from a year earlier. The negative forecast could portend trouble for smaller banks that have bigger exposure to the office sector.

The correlation between capital and economic activity is tenuous. Still, some economists say now is a fraught time for midtier banks to try to raise equity.

The New Jersey institution has hired Jeanne Scungio, a veteran banker who ran First Republic Bank's New York operations, to oversee its expansion into the Big Apple.

American Banker's Allissa Kline speaks with Shaun Bisman and Kelly Malafis of Compensation Advisory Partners about the latest trends in bank CEO pay and what to expect for the rest of the year.

The average credit union member had saved $286 less in March compared to a year earlier. That was the largest per-member drop in credit union history, fueled by rising costs of living and more aggressive competition.

Isabella Guzman, the administrator of the Small Business Administration, skipped a congressional hearing called to discuss the wide disparity in the level of fraud calculated by her staff and a parallel examination conducted by SBA's Office of the Inspector General.