President Joe Biden said on Monday that he's called on Congress "to give regulators the tools to hold banking executives accountable."

The 34-page document demands that the bank get regulatory nonobjection for every new fintech partnership and requires the bank to step up its monitoring of partners' compliance with banking laws.

Land of Lincoln Credit Union in Decatur, Illinois, has agreed to acquire Nokomis Savings Bank. In December, the credit union announced a deal to buy Colchester State Bank.

The messaging organization is providing a sandbox for developers to enable cross-border transactions for central bank digital currencies, an elusive goal as most central banks focus on domestic use.

First Republic Bank was shuttered by regulators early Monday, and all its deposits and most of its assets were acquired by JPMorgan. San Francisco-based First Republic was undone by low-rate mortgages it made to its wealthy customers as well as by the fallout from last month's banking crisis.

The Federal Reserve's long-awaited real-time payment system is at the finish line. But there's still some wrinkles that need to be ironed out so it can work with its cousin from The Clearing House. And how much will banks have to pay?