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The deal ends more than a year of speculation of who would take over Apple's coveted credit card portfolio.
January 7
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House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill's community-banking package includes reciprocal deposits, tailoring and many other items on community bankers' wish lists.
January 7
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Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman outlined several priorities affecting community banks, including potential changes to asset thresholds for smaller institutions.
January 7
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The U.K. bank has completed a payment using the stablecoin alternative; while Revolut is trying to acquire Turkish neobank FUBS. Plus: execs tied to the Wirecard scandal are on their way to prison and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.
January 7
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The bank is investing in Ubyx to help traditional financial institutions settle stablecoin payments and compete with nonbank fintechs.
January 7
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Naaz Scheik is the founder and CEO of SoftPak Financial Systems, where he has spent over 30 years pioneering quantitative fintech solutions for global investment firms and banks. A former quantitative analyst, he was named one of the Top 50 Financial Technology CEOs of 2024 in the Financial Technology Report.
January 7
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President Trump said he would prohibit large institutional investors from buying single-family homes. While the executive couldn't bar such investments on its own, a legislative ban could gain bipartisan support.
January 7
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The company's asset and wealth management business is completely cutting ties with proxy advisors, opting to build its own research and public company voting system. JPMorgan is the first bank to stop using firms such as Glass Lewis and ISS.
January 7
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With fintechs and legal cases pressuring payment fees, the card companies are leaning more on revenue from other sources.
January 7
