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In a break with his own Justice Department, President Trump suggested Friday he would sign a bill co-authored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to protect financial institutions that help legal marijuana businesses.

Robert Broeksmit has a tough act to follow succeeding David Stevens, the CEO revered for navigating the Mortgage Bankers Association through one of its most tumultuous eras on record. But in doing so, Broeksmit has a distinct advantage over many of his predecessors: inheriting an organization on the upswing.

The OCC finds that Wells Fargo was not alone in its sales abuse practices (though it's not naming names); Fifth Third's Tim Spence is our Digital Banker of the Year; the CFPB acting director wipes out the agency's Consumer Advisory Board; and more from this week's most-read stories.

The acting director cited the size of advisory boards and some members’ reticence among reasons for his decision.

Two factions that have taken on the card networks on separate fronts are combining their might in the latest effort to pressure Visa and Mastercard. Even so, there is not a lot of reason for the credit card brands to change their methods.

When asked if other banks were being sued, USAA said the lawsuit names only Wells Fargo because the bank is one of the biggest adopters of remote mobile deposit capture and has failed to license the technology.

The London company unveiled FusionFabric.cloud at Money 20/20 Europe this week.

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google garner so much attention that they have their own collective shorthand, FAANG. But it was a mostly different set of companies, including Starbucks and Acorns, that were top of mind this week for their financial services moves.

Months after a group of Democrats helped propel Dodd-Frank reforms forward, the opposition party’s identity crisis on banking policy is still on full display.

In a new initiative announced Friday, Bank of America said that it will work with several nonprofits to source a pipeline of local talent in its markets.

The cashierless Amazon Go store is barely more than an experiment — it's live in only one location in Seattle, with plans for a handful of stores to follow this year — but it has already sparked a race to put similar models in place.

The firms were initially slated to be included in a newly merged trade association, but they were blocked after some executives objected to adding more Wall Street banks.

Institutions that have been opening consumer accounts without consent need to prepare for the fallout, even if the OCC has said it won't name names.

The agency found no “systemic issues” in its review of other banks’ sales practices; some churches say the lenders are needed, others see the devil.

Only the collective efforts of cardholders, issuers, merchants and acquirers will significantly impact payment fraud, writes Stephanie Ericksen, vice president of identity and risk products for Visa.

Readers react to members of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's advisory board getting fired, opine on Sen. Elizabeth Warren slamming deregulation, weigh in on facial recognition technologies and more.

Banks will need to evolve further and faster to reach consumers in an interconnected, always online world, according to industry leaders.

The agency will release the results of the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test on June 21 and the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review on June 28.

It's tough to explain the bizarre way the CFPB handled the decision to dismiss the members of three advisory councils earlier this week.

That’s the question executives of publicly traded banks are asking themselves as they try to make sense of new — and somewhat vague — guidance from the SEC on procedures for disclosing data breaches.