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Greg Carmichael, the former CEO of Fifth Third, will join the Los Angeles bank as its executive chair. The move comes a few weeks after City National, which is a unit of Royal Bank of Canada, reported a quarterly loss.

Despite an industrywide rough patch, EverBank still sees promise in the niche business line. The Jacksonville, Florida, company has hired a pair of prominent industry experts to lead a new division tasked with serving investment funds.

Carrie Tolstedt, scheduled to be sentenced Friday for her role in the company's phony-accounts scandal, has already paid for her crime and should receive three years probation, her attorneys argue in a sentencing memo. Prosecutors have recommended a year in prison.

A new model rates large banks on their efforts to develop and deploy artificial intelligence technology. 

Executives at Citizens Financial Group and community banks such as Seattle Bank and Citizens Bank of Edmond say there are potential use cases for large language models. Yet they have concerns that impersonal service and likely errors could erode customers' faith in their financial institutions.

Revenue challenges are driving the Utah bank's plan to reduce expenses, according to CEO Harris Simmons. "I talk to our peers, and everybody's looking for ways to cut costs," he said.

The secretive world of private credit is increasingly being funded by public money, and there will be no FDIC there to bail us out when things go bad.

Since the country's instant-settlement network doesn't cover everyone, ANZ is extending its excess capacity to other financial institutions. It's a strategy that's emerging in the U.S. and other markets.

Aiming to capture a bigger share of the cross-border payments market, Visa has signed a five-year agreement with the U.K.-based fintech.

Fraser has a plan to reduce the number of management layers at Citi, shrink its workforce, speed up decision-making and give herself more control of the bank's five core businesses. "It's going to make some of our people very uncomfortable," she said.

Frontline staffers are asking for better pay, internal talent development programs and more flexible work environments.

A handful of banks concentrated in the Southeast U.S. are facing elevated charge-offs amid the liquidation of Mountain Express Oil. First Horizon Corp., which led a syndicated loan of more than $200 million to the bankrupt company, expects to take a $70 million hit.

Lenders either write down portions of soured credits or charge them off altogether to remove them from their balance sheets. Banks also set aside reserves to cover potential future bad loans. This allowance creates a buffer for lenders to absorb losses.

The FBI, NSA and CISA highlighted the emerging dangers of AI-powered deepfakes in phishing campaigns and cataloged protections companies can deploy.

Regional banks had a rocky time after three banks failed in 2023. Van Saun discusses his strategy for Citizens with Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger.

Following New York Community Bancorp's acquisition of Flagstar, the company is ditching the regional bank brands that it long used. CEO Thomas Cangemi calls Flagstar a "neutral" but "patriotic" name that underscores the firm's nationwide expansion strategy.

The bank is testing artificial intelligence tools that aim to detect possible signs of misconduct from the tone of traders' phone conversations.

The top three fintech investors in the ranking have 76 combined VC investments as of June 2023.

A joint letter from the banking and financial trade groups is the latest effort by the industry and its representatives in Washington to push back against the Basel III capital proposals, which would raise capital significantly for the largest banks.

The bank aims to use new tech to make account-to-account transfers for merchants an easier option than credit cards.