The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency both cited the nation's largest bank for having "inadequate" policies around firm and client trading activities.

The pandemic reduced the number of daily mass-transit commuters, but the accompanying surge of contactless payments is expanding and diversifying transit systems' demographic reach, according to data from the card network.

Larger banks are responsible for a special assessment to cover the costs of the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The price tag has ballooned by $4.1 billion, and trade groups are criticizing the FDIC's process, arguing that it lacks transparency.

Federal Reserve officials have hammered home the importance of bank readiness to borrow from the discount window. Getting banks to actually do so may require the Fed to make structural improvements to the system.

A bipartisan group of senators called on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to exercise transparency and expedience in evaluating industrial loan company applications, which grant a type of charter industry experts say is unlikely to be issued in this administration.

Peapack-Gladstone's wealth unit is pursuing an ambitious de novo expansion in New York and perhaps elsewhere because M&A has become expensive as private equity money has inflated seller expectations.