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Bread Financial's point-of-sale installment loans, called Bread Pay, helped drive the lender's credit sales amid a wider earnings beat.

Optus Financial in South Carolina will acquire M&F Bancorp in North Carolina in a deal that's set to create one of the largest Black banks in the United States.

The Hugging Face breach gives bank executives reason to rethink some of their technology choices.

Brian Johnson, President Trump's nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, navigated a somewhat contentious Senate Banking Committee hearing dominated by Democratic opposition but without giving away specific plans he has for the agency.

Dymah Paige is a director analyst with the finance practice at Gartner, supporting the CFO Personal Effectiveness KI. She is a thought partner for CFO clients, advising them on strategic leadership, effectiveness, capital management and external stakeholder management, with a special focus on board and investor relations.

Advisors can help clients to diversify their stock portfolios, maximize growth and defer taxes with this increasingly popular method for harvesting losses.

The North Carolina-based bank plans to make additional monthly payments of $500 million-$1 billion to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., in order to reduce $35 billion of debt tied to its acquisition of the failed Silicon Valley Bank.

Originators need to keep an eye on the 10-year Treasury yield used in pricing mortgages, which not only broke through 4.6%, climbed above 4.7% on Thursday.

Banks can price in risk and manage their way around both left-wing and right-wing administrations. But the kind of uncertainty that arises from today's brand of politics is impossible to model.

The company, which has conditional approval for a bank charter, hit a $1 billion valuation with fintech exec backing from firms such as Nubank and Revolut.