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State officials from California to New Jersey along with the SEC are focusing on Coinbase's staking program, which offers customers a return for letting their tokens be used to facilitate blockchain transactions. 

This week in global news: JPMorgan Chase works on blockchain in India, U.K. reps want faster crypto regs and more. 

Widespread adoption of a central bank digital currency would utterly transform the financial services sector by reducing access to loans and raising prices for consumers.

As incentive marketing and payments preferences change, Geeta Chandan, vice president and head of product and loyalty at Discover, will join us at American Banker's Payments Forum to discuss opportunities and challenges. interview at Payments Forum

After outsize profits at banks during the early stages of the pandemic led to big increases in compensation, chief executives collected a 7% median pay raise in 2022. The decline in stock prices following the recent banking crisis could weigh on the size of this year's awards.

The Tennessee-based bank was supposed to be acquired this year, but the merger fell apart a month ago. Now executives say that employees are energized as they reengage with clients who are relieved that they won't be switched away from First Horizon's systems.

Beach Cities Commercial Bank is set to open in Southern California next week. Rising interest rates and consolidation in recent decades have created more opportunities for investors to form new banks, experts said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued the two largest cryptocurrency exchanges this week over allegations of operating as unregistered securities exchanges, rattling the industry but potentially lighting the way to more regulatory certainty.

Chatbots may provide inaccurate information, may run afoul of consumer financial protection laws and may force consumers into "repetitive loops of unhelpful jargon," the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned.

The Federal Reserve has taken heat in recent years for its forays into climate stress testing, but the effects of climate change on the broader economy are getting harder to ignore.