In|Vest 2018 Direct

Banks are taking too long to treat climate and environmental risks as a material threat that can impact their finances, according to the ECB.

At the American Fintech Council's 2024 policy summit, banking-as-a-service was the talk of the town as experts shared how to avoid missteps in the business.

The online payday lender violated a 2019 consent order by debiting consumers' bank accounts without the consumers' consent, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.

The House Financial Services Committee asked Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Martin Gruenberg tough questions about alleged workplace misconduct at the agency during a Wednesday hearing, while reiterating concerns about a proposed capital hike.

Share prices climbed sharply amid increased optimism about the outlook for interest rates. Regional banks that got hammered earlier this year were among the biggest winners.

Jerry Maginnis, CPA, is a retired KPMG partner who served as the managing partner of the firm's Philadelphia office. He currently sits on several public company boards and is the author of "Advice for a Successful Career in the Accounting Profession"

Jason Stverak is the chief advocacy officer of the Defense Credit Union Council.

The $7.7 billion-asset federal credit union in East Lansing announced its third deal in as many months — the planned purchase of in-market peer Gabriels Community Credit Union. And it has two bank acquisitions pending.

Souvik Das is chief product and technology officer at Clearwater Analytics. He was most recently CTO at Zenefits, where he led all product development, operations, infrastructure, information security and information technology. He served as senior vice president of engineering at Grand Rounds prior to Zenefits and prior to that served as chief technology officer at Capital One Auto Finance, leading all of engineering for the multibillion-dollar business unit. At Capital One, he led the migration of COAF's on-prem infrastructure to public cloud, and the modernization of COAF's technical stack. Before that, he spent a decade at PayPal, where he held a number of increasingly responsible management positions in software engineering including leading the merchant technology team, a global team of several hundred engineers.

Executives at Capital One, U.S. Bank, BMO and Atlantic Union Bank are striving for seamless onboarding and more efficient branch bankers, among other projects on their technology drawing boards.