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Carter Bankshares wants to widen its footprint in the Carolinas and may look to buy a bank, especially in South Carolina, where it set up a loan production office in November. The Virginia bank recently resolved a long-running dispute with a major commercial borrower.
May 5
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CEO Brian Armstrong said the company will flatten its org chart to five management layers and concentrate hiring around "AI-native" pods.
May 5
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Ather Williams III, Wells Fargo's head of global payments and liquidity and wholesale digital, discussed the changing payments landscape and how banks can stay ahead during the keynote address at American Banker's Payments Forum 2026.
May 5
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Dimon spoke Tuesday at an Anthropic event alongside Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
May 5
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Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., said that they "agree to disagree" with bank lobbyists on their objections to their newly released stablecoin-yield provision.
May 5
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Wells' latest advisor recruiting coup comes just days after it pulled over a 19-person team formerly managing nearly $6 billion at Morgan Stanley.
May 5
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Mainstream financial services firms moving into the crypto realm are rightly skittish about consolidating trading, custody, lending, staking and settlement in a single provider. The crypto industry is, instead, entering a world of "co-opetition."
May 5
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The debate over how to define yield in terms of stablecoin rewards feels like the debate over how to define usury in medieval Europe.
May 5
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The GSEs' financials are strong but odds are against a short-term change to conservatorship that would give stockholders access to their profits, Mizuho said.
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Nicole Belles is a product leader who turns complex health data into simple, trustworthy solutions. She is the chief product officer of GeneSprout, a pediatrician-founded company using genetic sequencing to improve the health of children by identifying conditions that can be treated or prevented. Throughout her over-two-decade healthcare career, Nicole has been using emerging technologies to build resilient, enduring products with measurable outcomes that address the strategic business needs of all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.
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