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The bank is using Cognition's Devin AI agent to automate simple tasks for programmers, with human controls.
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The Columbus, Ohio-based company plans to acquire Veritex Holdings, which has grown into one of the Lone Star State's biggest commercial banks over the past 15 years.
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Jessica Jones-Langford is the group accounting manager at
Ximplifi , where she leads a QuickBooks accounting team. With over a decade of experience in nonprofit and corporate accounting, she brings a strategic mindset to designing scalable workflows, optimizing financial operations, and delivering accurate reporting tailored to each client's needs. She also plays a key role in driving onboarding, overseeing daily operations and continuously refining team workflows to maintain high service standards.July 14 -
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In a surprise settlement, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered the Texas lender to pay a penalty and compensate for overcharging service members on more than 45,000 loans.
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Major nonbank financial trade groups asked Treasury Secretary Bessent to scrap 2023 guidance expanding nonbank designations, citing cost and competitiveness concerns.
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As we enter one of the banking industry's most extreme cycles of deregulation, we should remember it doesn't always work, especially when supervisory police are reduced and consumer protection guardrails are removed, resulting in a high-speed lane for risk-taking banks and nonbanks.
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Increasing community bank and credit union adoption is a key pillar of the P2P payment network's strategy as it looks to increase its network effect and penetrate into small-business payments.
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Calls for applications for a bank-specific program within the Community Development Financial Institution Fund have been delayed, raising the possibility that those funds are unspent before the appropriated money expires.
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A federal judge in Texas dismissed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's medical debt rule and prohibited states from passing their own laws prohibiting medical debt on credit reports.
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