SAN FRANCISCO The Federal Home Loan Bank here has reported that the weighted average cost of funds index for its member institutions was 4.745% in May, a decline from 4.946% in April.
The cost of funds index reflects the interest that savings institutions in Arizona, California, and Nevada pay on their sources of mortgage funding.
Changes in interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages offered by many of these institutions are tied to changes in the index.
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said in a speech Tuesday that despite positive employment readings in recent months, he remains concerned that an economic shock could still threaten the labor market.
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.
