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The financial market infrastructure providers are taking advantage of political tailwinds and technology advancements to offer 24/7 trading over distributed ledgers.
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The Cleveland-based bank announced changes Tuesday to its board of directors, including the appointment of a new lead independent director. Last month, activist investor HoldCo Asset Management urged the bank's board to not re-nominate its longtime lead independent director.
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Arjun Arora leads Strategic Finance for Bloomberg's quantitative investment products business. Previously, he spent nearly a decade in senior leadership roles at Citi.
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Joe Lau is a co-founder and the president of Alchemy, a blockchain developer platform.
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The newly launched digital credit union, CineFi, aims to serve creative professionals in the Atlanta area as well as First Entertainment's existing member base in Los Angeles.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday morning that banks should focus on the sweeping deregulation the administration has enacted as the industry pushes back on President Trump's proposed 10% credit card interest rate cap.
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The company's recently released 2026 trends report is about "moving and changing the narrative from being Eeyores to being Tiggers," Abbott said in the latest American Banker podcast.
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Billy Abrams is in Correspondent Business Development at AD Mortgage and is the CEO of IF Securities. Abrams has experience in commodity futures and options brokerage and trading, as well as in institutional fixed-income sales and trading. His product experience includes repo, treasury, agency, corporate, MBS and derivatives. Prior to joining AD Mortgage, for more than a decade, he worked exclusively with mortgage originators, helping them to hedge with TBAs.
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Efforts to exclude crypto firms from the provision of a number of different core financial services are doomed to fail. The only correct response is to provide the prudential regulation necessary to assure safe and sound operation.
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Cryptocurrency has traditionally been an investment product more than a way to make purchases, but fintechs are betting there's a future for digital assets at the point of sale.
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