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Katherine Weislogel, head of treasury and payment solutions at Synovus, discusses industry trends.

D.A. Davidson Director of Wealth Management Research James Ragan will review and analyze the March Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

Technology executives at financial institutions must strike a balance between jumping on new technologies while justifying their business case for the bank.

The megabank, which is eliminating about 5,000 jobs in a first round of restructuring, said that it's paused its annual review of racial and gender pay gaps. Citi will conduct a 2023 review sometime later this year, a source said.

How the FDIC, the Federal Reserve and other regulators are working to keep banks in compliance through 2024.

The top five banks have combined construction loans of more than $72 billion.

For the second straight year, Goldman Sachs shareholders have filed a proposal calling for more details on racial and gender pay gaps. The request comes as the investment banking giant faces scrutiny over its lack of high-ranking women leaders.

Banks are proceeding with caution as a new generation of AI tools arises.

The payments industry is evolving, driven by innovative technologies and a new class of leaders and executives eager to embrace change. Here's what they're prioritizing.

False information, job losses, diminishing skills and human interaction, among other concerns, have bankers worried about deploying both generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, and more long-accepted forms of AI like machine learning, according to a new survey of American Banker readers.

Stephanie Cohen's exit adds to the dwindling ranks of senior women at the firm as Chief Executive Officer David Solomon has failed to make good on his pledge of correcting the lack of women in the firm's top ranks.

As the use of internet of things (IoT) devices and artificial intelligence grow in popularity, their adoption is creating real risks for end users and insurers alike. As bad actors use it to perpetrate new kinds of fraud, carriers can also utilize it to identify these risks and fraudulent claims more quickly.

Bank mergers and acquisitions have slowed in recent years amid recession fears and other economic uncertainties. But bank consolidation is a century-old trend that's expected to rev up again as early as this year due to higher costs, tougher regulation and fierce competition.

The chair and CEO of the M&T division considers herself a "builder-fixer" and has sought out new challenges and opportunities throughout her more than 30-year career.

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.

Bank M&A activity has been in the doldrums in recent years, but a number of CEOs are predicting an increase in bank consolidation in 2024.

The stock prices of five of these banks fell by more than 7% on the day they announced their fourth-quarter results, including two with double-digit decreases.

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent separate letters to banking regulators on the anniversary of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, with Hagerty questioning the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s sale of Signature Bank's assets and Warren urging the regulators to tighten capital and liquidity requirements.

Midsize lenders have largely defied the most dire predictions following Silicon Valley Bank's demise. But the nation's largest banks still have structural advantages, and the regionals remain hampered by their real-estate heavy portfolios and the continuing impact of high interest rates.

The head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Biden Administration said she will transition from public life starting March 22.