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The Beaver State measure gives de novo banks up to $1 million per year in tax credits. Oregon lawmakers modeled their legislation on a 5-year-old Ohio law.

James filed a pair of lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini arguing that they violated New York's sports gambling laws.

Tether launches a wallet, Rain issues a crypto card and MoneyGram extends stablecoin services in El Salvador. That and more in American Banker's global payments and fintech roundup.

The construction plan underscores the Japanese banking giant's intent to remain active in U.S. wholesale banking after selling off American retail and small-business units.

Organizers of the Winter Park-based Portrait Bank said they exceeded their capital-raise target by a wide margin, clearing the path for a June soft launch.

From the war in Iran to reviving the American Dream, the CEO of JPMorganChase has a lot on his mind. Here are five takeaways from his message to shareholders.

The bank's planned $142 million acquisition of Affinity Bancshares comes as war-related uncertainty appears to have slowed the industry's appetite for mergers.

Like much of the United States, Tampa Bay has seen very few new bank charters in recent years. That's a void that the new Echelon Bank, which is slated to open in May, hopes to fill.

Diligence Capital Management is pushing the beleaguered bank to add directors with bank turnaround experience. Eagle has been searching for a new CEO after getting battered from losses tied to its commercial real estate portfolio.

Jurors determined that Aaron Luneke, the former chief financial officer of Bank of the Valley in Nebraska, obtained millions of dollars in loans — including from his own bank — by inflating contractor bills for a new car wash business.

Three years after acquiring Bank of the West, BMO is preparing to open 130 branches in the Golden State, where it thinks it can achieve density and critical mass. The Toronto-based bank also plans to open 15 branches in Arizona.

WesBanco in Wheeling, West Virginia, has hired a team of lenders in South Florida. It plans eventually to open branches in a bid to grab a share of the region's expanding deposit market.

The company has agreed to a 20-year lease for the entire office portion and some retail space at the 51-story property, where it's already the anchor tenant.

A New York state bill would reduce the barrier for minority-bank and community-bank participation in the state's long-standing Banking Development District program.

The payments fintech's Nasdaq debut marks the largest U.S. listing by a Japanese company in a decade and had a strong start despite market turmoil caused by the Iran war.

Dean Bass, who served as CEO at two Houston community banks, plans to acquire Lone Star Bank in a deal expected to close this summer.

The Beaver State is poised to opt out of a federal law that poked a hole in its interest rate cap, joining a growing list of states to reassert their authority over consumer loan rates.

Midland States Bancorp had struggled in 2025 with accounting-related issues and bottom-line losses.

Glen Herrick, a veteran bank director, penned a resignation letter criticizing the West Virginia company's executive-compensation policies and what he described as a failure to focus on core profitability.

The Royal Bank of Canada's base outlook is that tariffs will remain at their current levels. But it also sees a possibility that U.S. trade policy will bring on a severe North American recession.