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Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard was interviewed for the top job at the U.S. central bank when she visited the White House last week, according to people familiar with the discussions. She and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are the only people who have publicly surfaced as being in the running for the post.

Kevin Jones, the longtime leader of MidFlorida Credit Union — one of the largest credit unions in Florida — will retire March 1. He will be succeeded by S. Steve Moseley, who was MidFlorida’s president for the past four years.

The company, whose software is used by four of the top five U.S. banks, says it will use the money to improve its identity verification and fraud detection technology.

The partnership with the e-commerce giant could help PayPal overcome muted fourth-quarter sales due to supply-chain issues and other factors changing consumer spending.

The smallest of the Best Banks to Work For have figured out how to thrive in an environment where many employees are working fully or partly from home. Some are using flexibility as a tool to stave off burnout.

Brett King, founder of Moven, host of the radio show “Breaking Banks” and co-author of the forthcoming book “The Rise of Technosocialism,” has strong opinions about how technology is changing finance and the world. His forecast includes more automation, fewer jobs and the emergence of central bank digital currencies.

Directors can urge executives to move more quickly in gauging their institutions’ vulnerability to extreme weather events, said acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu. He offered a list of five questions every board member should ask senior leaders about their progress.

After vowing for months to crack down on ransomware, the Biden administration and allied countries unleashed a string of actions Monday against one of the most prolific hacking groups and also issued sanctions against cryptocurrency entities that allegedly enable such attacks.

A recent report from banking regulators says the digital assets pose too big a risk to the financial system to be issued by state-chartered entities that don’t have deposit insurance. Stablecoin issuers and others reject that claim and say regulators are discouraging competition.

The U.S. unit of Spain’s Banco Santander is the latest bank to make it easier for customers to avoid the charges.