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-  Eight years after its launch, Early Warning's peer-to-peer payments platform Zelle is so ubiquitous it's almost a verb. It's looking for similar recognition for Paze in its jersey patch partnership with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. October 1
-  In a unanimous vote, the Board of Governors moved to lower Morgan Stanley's stress capital buffer requirement to 4.3%, down from a preliminary 5.1% based on this year's stress test results. September 30
-  The Brazil-based neobank has 122.7 million customers in three countries and is focused on international expansion. September 30
-  The robo-adviser fintech publicly released its S-1 filing on Monday, even as a government shutdown could chill the IPO market. September 30
-  Chris Soriano is the co-founder and chief commercial officer of BridgePort, which provides market infrastructure for digital assets. September 30
-  The acquisition would allow Fiserv network banks to insure larger deposits and could bolster the company's new foray into stablecoins. September 30
-  Amy Cardillo is a senior lecturer at Metropolitan State University of Denver. September 30
-  The bank added an AI assistant to improve business payment tools, a move that comes at the same time that Citigroup and Temenos pushed their strategies for emerging AI at banks. September 30
-  Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said despite the near term cloudiness to economic projections, he does expect inflation to resume its downward trajectory next year and reach the Fed's 2% inflation target in the coming years. September 30
-  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's union is appealing an appellate panel's ruling that allows acting CFPB Director Russell Vought to fire 90% of the bureau's staff. September 30









