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The Cincinnati bank aims to grow in northeast Ohio with the acquisition of Westfield. The deal is expected to boost First Financial to a $20.6 billion institution.
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Lawrence Sprung, CFP, is the founder and wealth advisor of Hauppauge, New York-based Mitlin Financial.
He has more than a quarter-century of experience in the wealth management field.
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House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill, R-Ark., declined to say whether he would pass the Senate's GENIUS Act without making his own changes, as President Trump has preferred.
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Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. has applied for an industrial loan company charter, joining General Motors and Ford in hoping for better prospects for approval under the Trump administration.
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Barely two years after adopting a bank charter, NewtekOne in Florida plans to expand beyond its roots as an SBA 7(a) lender by growing its alternative loan program.
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The Federal Reserve is the latest bank regulator to purge reputational considerations from its supervisory materials.
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Although credit bureaus have collected this data for three years, it's only now being factored into assessments of consumer creditworthiness.
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The financial technology seller plans its own coin and interoperability with PayPal's PYUSD, potentially reaching millions of consumers and merchants and thousands of banks.
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Following strikes on nuclear sites, the U.S. warned of a heightened threat environment. Here's how Iran has targeted American banks in the past.
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More than a year after Synapse went bankrupt, fintech customers who lost money due to the fintech middleware firm's collapse might be made whole through the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's customer relief fund.
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