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Markel O'Neal Calhoun, a former Regions Bank employee, has been barred from ever working in the industry again after embezzling $17,981, according to the Federal Reserve.
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Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman warned that focusing too much on technology risks could make banks lose relevance with customers.
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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., asked crypto firms to keep spending in elections, and said that they "literally" put Bernie Moreno, Sherrod Brown's successor in Ohio, in the Senate.
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Pragya Thakur is a National Board-certified health and wellness coach and master of public health candidate at Boston University.
She writes on wellness topics for publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Law Journal Newsletter and is currently developing a book exploring how small daily shifts can create meaningful change in health and clarity.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. proposed a rule Tuesday that would allow banks to remove FDIC insurance labels except on initial webpages and no longer require alerts warning customers that non-deposit products are not insured.
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Matt Mullet, the company's longtime chief financial officer, said he's spent the past year getting accustomed to the people side of management.
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Steven B. Goldman is a senior lecturer at MIT and director of the Crisis Management & Business Resiliency and Advanced Business Resiliency courses. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Harvard University, where he lectures on Crisis and Risk Communications, and directs the Radiological Emergency Management program.
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Sandra Galletti is the assistant director of MIT's Crisis Management & Business Resiliency and Advanced Business Resiliency courses. She also serves as head of operations and resilience at Tidona Comunicazione in Milan, Italy.
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As bank regulators work to create a more transparent and effective supervisory process, they should overhaul the process for appealing their rulings to include challenges to enforcement actions.
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Both banks are preparing rollouts of Casca's software and participated in the firm's $29 million funding round.
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