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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Trump plans to make changes to the rule governing consumer financial data rights despite rare bipartisan support for the regulation.
May 5
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that tight bank regulations are driving the growth of private credit, which he thinks reinforces the case for deregulation.
May 5
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A service outage on Friday at Fiserv affected multiple banks and crippled at least 60 applications for some Fiserv customers, including Early Warning's peer-to-peer money transfer app Zelle. The issue, while resolved, reiterates the importance of bank redundancies.
May 5
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Curve, a London-based fintech, has added a mobile wallet to its flagship product that lets consumers switch cards after the point of purchase.
May 5
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Anurag Arjun is co-founder of Avail, a modular blockchain infrastructure project spun out from Polygon. He previously co-founded Matic Network (now Polygon) and serves on the board of rootVX, an enterprise tokenization studio focused on building regulated digital infrastructure for assets, payments and data. With a background in research, economics and engineering, Anurag brings deep cross-disciplinary expertise to financial technology and modular blockchain design.
May 5
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A bipartisan alliance backing stablecoin legislation shattered in the U.S. Senate.
May 5
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The bank in the past year returned to offering loans backed by the cash that investors pledge to funds.
May 5
