The Canadian bank's stateside retail operations will be hamstrung by a massive anti-money-laundering settlement. But executives said the company can lean on both its Wall Street business and lines of revenue north of the border.

The Canadian bank is indefinitely prohibited from growing assets at its two U.S. subsidiaries as the result of a sweeping settlement over money-laundering violations. While only the second imposition of such a penalty ever, experts say it will not be the last.

The giant card network and the global bank are combining their scale to boost real-time cross-border transfers as fintechs target the market.

President Joe Biden called on Congress to return to Washington to make sure Small Business Administration loans don't run out after Hurricanes Milton and Helene devastated large swaths of the Southeast.

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors cast doubt on an initiative unveiled by Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Nellie Liang that would establish a federal regulatory framework for domestic payments, saying that state-level supervision "does not … constitute a regulatory gap."

The issue of how private equity interacts with consumer-facing businesses is getting more scrutiny among Democratic lawmakers and policymakers, including Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris.