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Raymond Gatcliffe, the head of Citigroup's commercial bank in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will replace Richard Banziger, who is retiring after 38 years with the company.

In a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the economy, Republicans reiterated their demand for more transparency from Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden's pick to serve as vice chairman for supervision at the Federal Reserve.

Chief Financial Officer Emily Portney said Bank of New York Mellon would be interested in buying more custody assets if an opportunity arises and the price is right. In the meantime, it continues to eye deals for small tech companies.

Almost 350,000 loans made to small businesses in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic haven’t been forgiven, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of Paycheck Protection Program data, and most of them are for less than $25,000. 

Apple's planned update for accepting contactless payments on its handsets is as disruptive as it is inevitable. Companies like Ingenico, which makes point-of-sale hardware, have strategies in place to build on the tech giant's platform without sidelining their own devices.

Coinbase Global, Gemini Trust and Robinhood Markets are among firms helping to build a platform to comply with a U.S. money laundering rule as crypto and financial technology companies seek to satisfy existing requirements and head off stricter oversight.

Global financial regulators said digital assets could soon threaten global financial stability due to their scale, structural vulnerabilities and increasing interconnectedness with the traditional financial system.

The spots "left out a few things," Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, said at a hearing Tuesday.

Teaming with the fintech Buy It Mobility Networks, Discover Financial Services plans to enable Automated Clearing House payments within merchant apps.

Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee skipped its scheduled vote on five Federal Reserve appointees, preventing a quorum. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell echoed concerns raised about nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin, saying she wants the Fed to become an “ideological left-wing activist body” that interferes with private-sector credit decisions.

GOP lawmakers are considering a plan by Sen. Pat Toomey, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, to boycott Tuesday’s committee votes on Raskin and President Biden’s four other Federal Reserve nominees. Such a move would deny Democrats a quorum to move forward.

Mastercard said it will hire more than 500 young professionals this year as it expands its data and services unit, an effort that will include launching consulting practices focused on cryptocurrencies and open banking.

A crucial centrist vote among Democrats, the Montana lawmaker and Senate Banking Committee member predicts the full chamber will support Raskin's nomination for vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board if she advances out of committee on Tuesday.

Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s pick to be the Federal Reserve Board’s vice chair for supervision, has had a distinguished career as a state and federal banking regulator. Her belief that banks should identify assets that are subject to climate-related shocks sounds like basic risk management, not a radical call to action.

“Ancillary parties who cannot get access to information that is useful to the IRS are not intended to be captured by the reporting requirements for brokers,” Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs Jonathan Davidson told lawmakers.

Dennis Gingold, co-founder of the Reserve Trust company, says Republican allegations that central bank nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin behaved unethically in interacting with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City while serving on the company's board are “completely false.”

The largest U.S. banks will be tested against a hypothetical massive surge in unemployment and a crash in commercial real estate in the Federal Reserve's annual stress tests, according to scenarios announced Thursday.

Pat Toomey, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee said Congress should weigh an overhaul of the U.S. Federal Reserve Regional Bank system and consider consolidating regional banks that are “wandering” into issues such as climate change.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston announced that Susan Collins, an economist currently at the University of Michigan, will be its new president, marking the first time a Black woman will lead one of the U.S. central bank’s 12 districts.

Martin Gruenberg, who became acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. this week, has named a chief of staff, chief operating officer and general counsel. Their predecessors stepped down last week along with former Chair Jelena McWilliams.