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Bankers should pay attention to a recent case in Wyoming in which regulators have sought to bar two executives for misusing confidential bank information for the benefit of a rival institution.

Hometown, which agreed to buy Millbury Savings Bank, has already completed one acquisition this year and has another pending.

Metro Bank, the lender founded by U.S. entrepreneur Vernon Hill, plunged to a record low after it disclosed that British regulators are probing how it misclassified assets, an incident that prompted a share sale.

The Seattle company has a letter of intent to sell its home loan centers to Homebridge Financial Services.

With U.S. sanctions in place against Venezuela, banks fear compliance violations; exclusion and cyber attacks the biggest concerns of cash-free society.

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The deal marks the first time that the retail giant will enable its customers to use fixed-rate loans, rather than credit cards, for big-ticket purchases in its stores and online.

The root of the credit reporting sector’s problems may be its dominance by a handful of big firms, lawmakers from both parties said at a hearing.

The U.K.’s major banks are urging regulators to allow for greater flexibility in processing high-risk transactions, in a bid to tackle ever-rising levels of financial crime.

It creates an auditable, distributed ledger of transactions that cannot be altered or removed, enabling transactions that are valid, authentic, trustworthy and immutable, according to David Uhryniak, a blockchain services leader at Crowe LLP, and Brian T. Zygmunt, a partner with Crowe LLP.