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Businesses are using a range of payments technologies, new and old, as the instant-payments movement gathers steam. Most Influential Women in Payments honoree Yaminah Sattarian talks about what her clients want and how the payments world is changing, in conversation with American Banker Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger.

Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that pursuing a rulemaking on forced arbitration, as laid out by consumer advocates' rulemaking petition, would be an "affront to Congress."

Launched last July, FedNow had enrolled more than 600 participants by mid-March, according to government officials. That marked a 100% increase from the start of the year, with more banks and credit unions viewing fast payments capabilities as essential. Fraud concerns linger, however.

From internal operations to conversational interfaces for clients, bank executives are bullish on the potential for efficiency gains.

Mortgage rates rose this week as investors priced stronger than expected inflation and jobs affecting Fed moves into the 10-year Treasury.

The collection of beneficial ownership data is vital to fighting money laundering. It should be more broadly accessible, and should cover more businesses.

Instead of painting unionization as a barrier to business success, we should consider it an opportunity to rebuild trust, integrity and responsibility within the banking sector.

To protect their own talent pipeline, financial companies need to make sure that they're not only protecting the entry-level roles that AI threatens to take over, but getting the enthusiastic buy-in of the people most likely to be affected, according to experts from Fiserv, Segpay and Featurespace.

A regulatory proposal to raise bank capital has spurred banks to fight back with a populist appeal to consumers, while regulators say more capital is what's needed to save banks from more crises — and help consumers.

West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore, who's put banks on a blacklist for their support of ESG policies, is up for (and very likely to win) one of the state's two seats in the U.S. House. Here's how he got there, and what it'll look like when he tries to bring his anti-ESG policies national.