Gesa Credit Union in Washington agreed to acquire a 103-year-old community bank in Centralia, as it eyes opportunities for additional growth in the Pacific Northwest. In the District of Columbia, a bank group is calling for exit fees on banks selling to tax-exempt credit unions.

Shan Hanes, who led Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas until it failed last year, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement by a bank officer. He now faces up to 30 years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 8.

A new tool from the San Francisco-based fintech deploys artificial intelligence to automatically adjust merchants' card transaction fraud filters based on changing risk factors in real time.

OpenAI is training a new flagship AI model to replace the one behind the wildly popular ChatGPT. It seems like a good time to ask, if financial users could design their own generative AI model from scratch, what they would want?

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury also rose in the past week as bond and note auctions got tepid responses from investors.

The Supreme Court decided to rule narrowly in Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A., sending the case back to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit with instructions to perform a more nuanced analysis on whether a New York escrow law unfairly discriminates against national banks.