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Gateway First Bank, a former nonbank home lender, rode the pandemic era's mortgage wave to No. 1 on American Banker's latest list of top-performing banks based on full-year 2022 data. Now it has to cope with the housing market slowdown.

The top five community banks have more than $670 million in combined home equity loan portfolios as of March 31, 2023.

Its One Ally strategy is meant to help the bank with personalization and cross-selling.

While talks between House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., and ranking member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., fell apart on stablecoin legislation, crypto anti-money-laundering bills quietly moved forward in the Senate.

In July's roundup of American Banker's favorite stories: A Zelle outage at JPMorgan Chase could cause headaches for other banks, talking points for understanding FedNow, the Elkhart, Kansas-based Heartland Tri-State Bank is shuttered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and more.

U.S. financial institutions should look to the U.K. for tips on fighting real-time payments fraud.

Payment companies hope the government-backed rail could spur both domestic and international growth for instant settlement.

The top five banks and thrifts have more than $12 trillion in combined total assets as of the end of Q1 2023.

Cloud giants are making major investments in generative AI and large language models. Their financial services clients are mostly in test-and-learn mode.

Dream First Bank of Syracuse, Kan. is assuming all deposits and most of the assets of Heartland Tri-State Bank of Elkhart, Kan. following a purchase and assumption agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., representing a $54.2 million hit to the Deposit Insurance Fund.