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Small lenders across the country filled leadership positions, including Orrstown Financial Services and QCR Holdings.

The Los Angeles-based parent company of Bank of Hope expects to complete its acquisition of Honolulu-based Territorial in April. The $79 million deal faced challenges when an investor group made a competing bid.

Unclear and inconsistent signals from Washington about tariffs, tax policy and the capacity of federal agencies are already spurring more conservative consumer-spending habits and could drag down economic growth, economists say.

Thirty members of the Senate Banking and House Financial Services committees signed a letter petitioning the administration to name a new vice chair for supervision — and quickly.

The Treasury will no longer enforce Corporate Transparency Act reporting rules for U.S. businesses, a move critics say weakens anti-money-laundering efforts.

Block has combined buy now/pay later with peer-to-peer payments, part of a big bet that younger consumers want an alternative to credit cards.

The startup announced over $20 million in funding in January and plans to launch in the second quarter of 2025.

In the new open banking world, banks are no longer just service providers but platform enablers that offer everything from payment processing to account verification through application programming interfaces.

With regulatory bills making their way through both houses of Congress, stablecoins could soon play a larger role in the financial system — with important implications for the Treasury market.

A March 2025 survey by the National Association for Business Economics shows growing inflation concerns — and a diminishing chance of rate cuts — in 2025, but also optimism about avoiding a recession.