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The outgoing CEO, now executive chairman of the Wall Street firm, told a conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York this week that cultural values are a critical element in any prospective merger or acquisition deal.

The SEC's pending requirement that securities trades settle within one day shouldn't be a problem for any modern financial firm. What we should be aiming for is real-time settlement.

Executives from JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are expected to get grilled in Congress this summer over victims of Zelle scams who don't get reimbursed. A Senate panel has spent much of the last year examining fraud on the bank-owned payments network.

Two years on, U.K. regulators on Wednesday revealed the result of their long-running probe into Citigroup's actions that day as they saddled the bank with £61.6 million ($78 million) in penalties for the mistake.

While the $800 billion in PPP loans has largely self-liquidated through the forgiveness process, SBA continues to service the longer-duration EIDL portfolio and will likely be doing so for years to come after opting to hold on to the loans.

Santander joins Iberpay as the first supporters of the European Payment Council's instant account-to-account network, Australian lawmakers approved bills to create a federated digital identity system, and more.

Shareholders at America's largest bank voted against requiring an independent board chair, though the proposal drew more support than similar measures did recently at other megabanks. The vote came just one day after Dimon signaled that his departure as CEO may be on the horizon.

Getting appointees confirmed by the Senate can be a time-consuming and painstaking process in ideal circumstances, and doing it in an election year amid a scandal is far from ideal. Even so, the White House and Senate Democrats should be motivated to move fast.

Martin Gruenberg's ouster from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. leaves the White House with the difficult task of finding a regulator willing to serve a roughly six month term atop the beleaguered agency.

The Federal Housing Administration also instituted a new language preference requirement that servicers must observe in transfers.

At an industry conference, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said he was open to suggestions on how to increase choice and competition to benefit mortgage lenders and borrowers.

One year after it bought First Republic Bank, the largest U.S. bank by assets is launching J.P. Morgan Private Client, a new tier in its affluent-consumer services that brings together JPMorgan's brand with First Republic's concierge model.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr Monday spoke at length about efforts to enhance banks' liquidity and long-term debt positions after last year's bank failures while saying little about the capital hikes in the embattled interagency Basel III endgame proposal.

Originators misled VA refinance applicants into believing they could skip two months of mortgage payments, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.

The announcement, made at the Mortgage Bankers Association's Secondary and Capital Markets Conference, underscores Ginnie Mae's role at the forefront of digitization efforts in the capital markets space.

Earlier in the day, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, called on the White House to name a successor for Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg.

A recommendation to give Ginnie Mae expanded authorities is drawing focus in the reactions to a Financial Stability Oversight Council report on nonbank risks.

Nash, the head of tech, media and telecom coverage, has no intention of ending her four-decade career anytime soon.

Even the conservative Supreme Court could see through the baseless arguments put forward by opponents of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, assuring that the agency will continue to fight to protect American consumers.

The card network is working with Salesforce to use large language models to be more proactive in how it resolves these interactions.