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The bank's first institutional fundraising round brought its total funding to $222 million.

The AI-powered fintech accused the neobank and buy now, pay later lender of misappropriating its trade secrets and breaching its license and loan sale agreements.

Chair Travis Hill wants to shift resolution planning away from lengthy bank-generated narratives and toward rapid access to critical operational data during failures.

Senior executives at the Ohio regional bank say cost savings and revenue synergies from a pair of recent Texas deals could top $500 million.

Colin Royal is a recent graduate of Morehouse College, and current NYU graduate journalism student.

At Morehouse, he obtained the distinction of Co-Valedictoriant while being heavily involved on-campus. He was the former Editor-in-Chief of The Maroon Tiger and Director of Morehouse Journalism Departments 2024-2025 Senior Capstone Documentary. 

Professionally, he has worked with multiple companies covering a variety of disciplines. He has worked for professional media organizations like Dow Jones and the Harvard Business Review. 

This summer he joined The Bond Buyer team after training with Dow Jones' News Fund.

The Dutch payment processor says that overall declines in payments crime obscure a broader danger as the threat migrates to hard-to-spot consumer uses and AI.

House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill, R-Ark., said he is optimistic that his Senate counterparts will develop compromise language for a crypto market structure bill that President Donald Trump will sign, though some details may be left to regulators to iron out.

Kathryn Miller covers wealth management and financial advisors for Financial Planning as part of the Dow Jones News Fund program.

Her reporting focuses on the people, firms and policy issues shaping the advice industry, with a particular interest in the intersection of wealth management and health care. She brings experience covering health care, business, politics and local government.

Kathryn is completing her master's degree in Magazine, News and Digital Journalism at Syracuse University. She has served as assistant executive producer of The NewsHouse and worked as a health reporting intern at Syracuse.com. She previously covered health care for the Fort Worth Report, where her work included reporting on hospital expansions in Fort Worth.

A native of Arlington, Texas, Kathryn earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Texas A&M University in 2023. At Texas A&M, she was editor of the student newspaper.

In her free time, Kathryn enjoys yoga, very long walks and supporting her local movie theater.

Connect with Kathryn on LinkedIn or reach her at kathryn.miller@arizent.com.

Chip Merlin is a nationally recognized attorney who has dedicated his career to representing policyholders in insurance disputes. He is the founder of Merlin Law Group and can be reached at cmerlin@merlinlawgroup.com.  

Originators slightly loosened credit for conventional and jumbo products in May but they've held steady after larger growth to begin the year.