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The top five community banks have more than $670 million in combined home equity loan portfolios as of March 31, 2023.

Payment companies hope the government-backed rail could spur both domestic and international growth for instant settlement.

The top five banks and thrifts have more than $12 trillion in combined total assets as of the end of Q1 2023.

Cloud giants are making major investments in generative AI and large language models. Their financial services clients are mostly in test-and-learn mode.

Dream First Bank of Syracuse, Kan. is assuming all deposits and most of the assets of Heartland Tri-State Bank of Elkhart, Kan. following a purchase and assumption agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., representing a $54.2 million hit to the Deposit Insurance Fund.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. this week launched the sale of an $18.5 billion loan portfolio from the failed bank, a pool of debt tied to major private equity and investing firms. 

 The advance has helped the group pare its declines this year to roughly 10%, easing an earlier drop of as much as 33% following a string of regional bank collapses, including Silicon Valley Bank in March. 

The top five banks and thrifts have more than $7 trillion in combined total deposits as of the end of Q1 2023.

Big Poppy Bancorp has applied to the Federal Reserve to acquire up to 24.99% of Summit State Bank. Both institutions are headquartered in Santa Rosa. Combining them would create the city's biggest bank.

In her day-to-day job directing activities at the card network's Start Path accelerator, Sabrina Tharani helps nurture companies that are developing new payments products and services.

Business cards provide a tactile experience that digital forms of communication do not replicate. They offer a tangible reminder of a discussion, which can be far more memorable.

Centerbridge Partners and Warburg Pincus said they would invest $400 million in Banc of California in conjunction with its purchase of PacWest. The private equity injection was made possible through reverse accounting, which used Banc of California's balance sheet to value the transaction.

The Federal Reserve released its list of large bank capital requirements based on the results from this year's stress test. While overall capital obligations will decline, some firms will have to hold more capital.

The bank hasn't explained why person-to-person payments, bill processing and account-transfer services went down for parts of two days this week. But observers suspect glitches in its legacy systems could occur at other financial institutions and increasingly affect real-time payment networks.

The Hicksville, New York, company says its deposit base is stable and poised for growth four months after its acquisition of the failed Signature Bank, some of whose depositors fled to larger banks. Private bankers — including new hires from another failed bank, First Republic — are trying to win back lost deposits.

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Phillip Jefferson joined three other board members in supporting a notice of proposed rulemaking, but expressed concerns about the economic impact of the changes.

The two Trump-appointed governors expressed skepticism that the increased capital requirements for regional banks were necessary to keep the banking sector resilient.

The FDIC proposed raising capital requirements for banks with $100 billion or more in total assets gradually over the next five years. Republican appointees on the board opposed the rule as excessive and impetuous.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already revolutionizing some elements of the business, but a human ability to "read between the lines" will always be needed.

Following the difficulties of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank this spring, banks are approaching the emergency lending facility more proactively, the Federal Reserve chair said.