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Investors drove up the stock prices of both companies after Ally Financial said it's selling its point-of-sale lending business to Synchrony Financial. The deal is expected to help Ally focus on its bread-and-butter auto lending business, while also aiding Synchrony's efforts to gain market share.

A common concern in housing finance reactions has been the lack of accommodation for strategies routinely used to manage credit, rate and liquidity exposures.

Citizens Bank of Edmond's Jill Castilla is reappointed to Fed Advisory Council; Old National injects $1.2 billion into its existing community benefits program; former Ernst & Young CEO Mark Weinberger joins JPMorgan's board; and more in our weekly banking news roundup.

The Alabama bank's executives said commercial borrowers remain cautious amid high rates and economic uncertainty. During the fourth quarter, flat lending and higher deposit costs weighed down the company's net interest income.

A federal judge rejected every one of Missouri's arguments for why SIFMA's lawsuit should be dismissed.

When Gensler arrived at the SEC in 2021, he took on just about everything. Rules for stock-market trading, Treasury-security clearing, executive-pay disclosures, private equity, crypto, short-selling, climate-change risks, even AI: nothing seemed off limits. But now, three years later, to Big Finance, the verdict is clear: Gary Gensler overreached.

The leader of the Financial Services Forum takes issue with a recent BankThink article that challenged the industry's claims about proposed rules for implementing the Basel endgame capital requirements.

The Federal Reserve and New York State Department of Financial Services fined the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for violations related to a lack of internal controls for confidential supervisory information and anti-money-laundering compliance failures.

"Someone somewhere has not taken a victory lap for the work that has been done to rehabilitate the enterprises." Priscilla Almodovar said in a Bloomberg interview.

The new service will allow financial institutions to streamline the process for moving accounts and verifying income.