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Federal Reserve officials have hammered home the importance of bank readiness to borrow from the discount window. Getting banks to actually do so may require the Fed to make structural improvements to the system.

A bipartisan group of senators called on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to exercise transparency and expedience in evaluating industrial loan company applications, which grant a type of charter industry experts say is unlikely to be issued in this administration.

Peapack-Gladstone's wealth unit is pursuing an ambitious de novo expansion in New York and perhaps elsewhere because M&A has become expensive as private equity money has inflated seller expectations.

The Congressional Budget Office put an estimate on the net government subsidy provided to the Federal Home Loan Bank System, including the so-called "implied guarantee," on bonds priced and sold to investors.

Analysts estimate the probe, which remains unresolved, could lead to a fine of between $500 million and $1 billion, and Toronto-Dominion has already said it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve its risk and control infrastructure. 

The new team at Dime Community Bancshares intends to attract funding from an array of niche business segments, including medical billing, so-called death care services and hedge funds.

The custody bank will offer clients technology from Microsoft that lets them analyze their data in near-real time, hosted on the latest versions of Microsoft's public and private clouds.

The U.K. is considering a bill that would let banks and payment service providers put suspicious-looking peer-to-peer payments on hold for up to four days to conduct security reviews; Giesecke+Devrient is working with Brazil's central bank to develop an offline payment approach to a central bank digital currency; and more in global payments news this week.

Prosecutors claim Dan Rotta, 77, hid more than $20 million from the IRS, using "pseudonyms, complicated corporate structures, and nominees" to conceal offshore assets and income.

The Supreme Court should preserve the preemption of state banking laws by federal laws, a key element of the dual banking system that has served the country well for generations.