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This week's global financial news roundup includes CBDC details from Europe, a new stablecoin in Australia and more.
January 25 -
Artificial intelligence now has the potential to fundamentally change customers' relationships with banks, impacting everything from onboarding to retention and upselling.
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The New York Stock Exchange said a manual error caused wild price swings and trading halts for hundreds of company stocks when the market opened Tuesday.
January 25 -
Firms like Oracle and Billtrust are betting companies with smaller, more remote teams will adopt digital transaction systems to ease the burden of paying their vendors.
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The Canadian fintech is collaborating with PayPal to power the firm's technology that merchants can place anywhere — from blogs to product packaging — to enable purchases.
January 25 -
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is standing by the state's commercial financing disclosure law, urging more protections for small-business financings and arguing that federal consumer law does not not apply to commercial lending.
January 24 -
The loan-growth projections are for Columbia Banking System itself, before the Tacoma, Washington, bank officially merges with Umpqua Holdings. The $5 billion deal is scheduled to close Feb. 28.
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Bank of America is rewarding the majority of its employees with a pool of restricted stock, boosting compensation to retain workers in an otherwise gloomy economic environment.
January 24 -
The company settled with the Federal Reserve after self-reporting that it had disbursed $1.1 million in wrongfully obtained Paycheck Protection Program loans.
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