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New York’s banking regulator ordered Habib Bank Ltd. to pay $225 million and surrender its license to operate in the state, effectively removing Pakistan’s largest lender from the U.S. financial system.

By design, any practice that requires a customer to simply hand over online bank credentials to a third party is a terrible idea.

The nominations of Randal Quarles as Federal Reserve Board vice chairman and Joseph Otting as comptroller of the currency will now head to the full Senate.

States must recognize how their patchwork of different regimes stifles innovation, but they also have an opportunity to help maintain U.S. competitiveness in the global fintech marketplace.

The changes to the National Multistate Licensing System will include a more customized user experience for companies and functionality for states to share examination data.

Neglecting to appoint a full-time director could shortchange efforts to improve the bureau’s transparency and undertake other needed reforms.

Company is third fintech firm in the past few months to seek its own bank charter; vice chair’s departure gives Trump four vacancies to fill on the Federal Reserve Board.

The company's application, which is expected to be announced as early as Thursday, comes after the online lender SoFi applied in June for an industrial loan charter. The bank is expected to be led by a former Green Dot executive.

The Fed announced Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer will depart in October, giving Trump the ability to rapidly reshape the central bank and target Dodd-Frank Act rules.

The central bank said Wednesday that it will assess a range of options regarding its operational role in a modernized payment system, an issue that divides large and small banks.