As a way to identify more with San Diegans, First Business Bank is changing its name to Bank of Southern California and opening a fourth branch in July.
The San Diego bank said Monday that the branch will serve the downtown business market. This follows an announcement that the $124.5 million-asset First Business will become Bank of Southern California on June 28. The decision also resolves trademark issues with a nonaffiliated bank.
Santander U.S. and Webster Financial are doing integration work in advance of their pending merger, including naming business-line leaders, the banks said in separate notes.
The FDIC board voted unanimously to issue a proposal putting a rebuttable ban on bank-issuers paying yield on stablecoins, another narrowing AML requirements and a third prohibiting examiners using reputational risk in exams, outside of operational or financial risks.
The neobank is rolling out Chime Prime, a new membership service that rewards customers for making Chime their primary bank account.
The Minneapolis-based company plans to leverage the arrangement to draw more attention to its growing list of national business lines, transcending its regional reputation.
Swiss banking giant UBS tried to get a federal court to reject new allegations that Credit Suisse, which UBS acquired in 2023, had concealed Nazi-linked assets.
Jamie Dimon said the revised Basel III plan still overstates risk and penalizes the largest banks.
