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Circle Internet Financial has conducted a number of “state visits” to the U.K. in the last year, flying over its most senior executives to engage with government, regulators and industry bodies with a view to expanding its business in the region.

Metaverse aversion, car chargers at Chase branches and more in banking news this week.

Robert Sarver, who is majority owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, will retire from his longtime role on the board of directors of Western Alliance Bancorp. in June, the company said. Sarver and the Suns are being investigated by the National Basketball Association regarding allegations of racism and misogyny within the Suns organization.

April and Column Tax are among the startups capitalizing on the idea that taxes are part of a person’s financial life and banks are most suited to help with tax preparation and filing.

The acting comptroller pushed back against a key feature of Sen. Pat Toomey’s stablecoin proposal, and the idea that stablecoins could be regulated as money market funds

Two U.K. fintech companies are exploring sale options after sanctions on their Russian billionaire backers have left them struggling to find funding.

The Federal Reserve permanently banned a former Goldman Sachs Group managing director from the financial industry for improperly using and disclosing the regulator’s bank-supervision information.

It’s past time for Congress to investigate these transactions at the federal level.

Bank-issued prepaid benefits cards were supposed to help state governments deliver these funds more efficiently. But the pandemic scrambled the economics of these programs.

Citigroup and Bank of America are partnering with four large European banks to create a methodology for assessing how well companies in the air-travel sector are doing in meeting climate-related targets.