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Customers expect fast loan approvals, CEO Brad Calhoun says, so the credit union now lets artificial intelligence decide who will get credit cards, auto loans and personal loans.
May 8 -
Micky Marshall is assistant vice president and regulatory counsel for the Independent Community Bankers of America.
May 8 -
Dominic Piscopo, CPA, is the founder of
Big 4 Transparency.com and host of theBig 4 Transparency Podcast .May 8 -
The neobank reported a 47% increase in revenue in the first three months of the year.
May 8 -
The industry and its regulators need to acknowledge the danger presented by ultrarealistic deepfake technology and implement new layers of transaction authentication.
May 8 -
Julian, the bank's onetime audit chief, recently agreed to settle with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a tiny percentage of the $7 million the agency had been seeking. In an interview, he spoke about the expensive legal fight and who bears responsibility for the bank's fake-accounts scandal.
May 8 -
Shivani Deodhar is a governance and reporting assistant vice president with BNP Paribas.
May 7 -
Investors seemed to agree with CEO Barry Sloane's argument that strong earnings will outweigh a jump in nonaccrual loans.
May 7 -
While other European-based banks have retreated from the United States, Santander is doubling down by building out its nationwide digital-banking platform. "Unequivocally," said U.S. CEO Christiana Riley, "the opportunity … is so clear."
May 7 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell declined to say whether he would depart the central bank after his chairmanship ends next year, as is typical with Fed chairs who are not reappointed. He also pushed back on criticism from one potential replacement.
May 7