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Beach Cities Commercial Bank is set to open in Southern California next week. Rising interest rates and consolidation in recent decades have created more opportunities for investors to form new banks, experts said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued the two largest cryptocurrency exchanges this week over allegations of operating as unregistered securities exchanges, rattling the industry but potentially lighting the way to more regulatory certainty.

Chatbots may provide inaccurate information, may run afoul of consumer financial protection laws and may force consumers into "repetitive loops of unhelpful jargon," the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned.

The Federal Reserve has taken heat in recent years for its forays into climate stress testing, but the effects of climate change on the broader economy are getting harder to ignore.

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy debated bills that would lower some banks' regulation and allow banks to pay some Deposit Insurance Fund assessments with Treasuries.

Jennifer Schachterle will oversee the Home Loan bank's relationships with nearly 330 members. Two former members — Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic — failed this year, and consolidation has also thinned its ranks.

Kinective, a product of IMM, CFM and NXTsoft, will help banks and fintechs connect using application programming interfaces.

Bankers and a key government supervisor say the downfalls of multiple regional lenders reminded regulators that traditional M&A is better for the industry than failed-bank-deals.

The core banking provider was No. 1 on American Banker's ranking of the Best Places to Work in Fintech this year. The company attributes this success to encouraging employees to hash out solutions to challenges.

The regulator alleges that Coinbase for years evaded its rules by letting users trade numerous crypto tokens that were actually unregistered securities.