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Industry leaders in this year's ranking shared insight on how they would advise their younger selves on building a path to the top and the skills today's rising professionals need.

Visa and Mastercard face pressure to lower payment charges globally, while the London-based fintech receives more fraud reports than the country's largest banks.

Purchases on the company's credit cards fell 4% as some customers traded down to cheaper goods or skipped discretionary spending. But CEO Brian Doubles said consumers remain in "pretty good shape" as they manage their budgets.

Irina Kimelfeld is a tax partner at Eisner Advisory Group LLC.

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said his tenure at the agency could be characterized as simply reading statutes rather than finding novel ways to enforce regulations.

As financial fraud becomes more and more sophisticated, banks need to get proactive about protecting their customers from scammers. This is particularly true of seniors, whose deposits are a key source of banks' core deposits.

The Swedish company struck a deal to offload buy-now, pay-later loans that it originates in the U.K. as it looks for ways to free up capital ahead of its public debut. 

For more than a decade, the bank allowed billions of dollars from illicit activities to flow through the U.S. financial system unchecked. Some are wondering why examiners didn't put a stop to it sooner.

The top five banks and thrifts had combined assets of more than $13 trillion as of June 30, 2024.

The investment banking giant is selling its General Motors credit card portfolio to Barclays, which is looking to grow and diversify its U.S. cards business. It's part of Goldman's retreat from consumer banking.