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Don't underestimate how lonely and messy entrepreneurship is, Walter said at American Banker's Small Biz Banking conference.

Frequent federal budget impasses increase insurance concerns and threaten to jack up financing costs that are already straining lenders.

House Republicans and lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee questioned the culture at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after a Wall Street Journal report alleged a climate of sexual harassment and misogyny.

Executives reflecting on the issues that doomed three banks say the closures stressed the importance of adapting quickly to change, and emphasized the advantages of the credit union business model.

Bankers should stop thinking of small companies as difficult to serve, Comerica's Brian Haney says; "How does succeeding in small business make the retail bank stronger?"

American Banker is proud to recognize the honorees for the second annual Most Powerful Women in Credit Unions.

Since the end of the Small Business Administration's 2022 fiscal year, the average loan size in its flagship program has dropped more than six figures. The addition of three new nondepository lenders could further drive down this figure.

Small Business Administration lending is an arena where community banks and nonbanks compete favorably with some of the largest U.S. financial institutions. Here are the biggest SBA 7(a) lenders based on the value of approved loans.

A recent effort by Citigroup to nudge certain customers toward digital-only statements was well intended but too punitive, observers say. The key, they argue, for banks seeking to cut costs or achieve other goals is to offer incentives to those with ingrained habits.

Small business clients are important to financial institutions and expected to drive growth. But to achieve that, banks must teach them to be stronger consumers.

The bank is adding fintech-style buy now/pay later lending to other recent payment upgrades at its merchant acquiring unit.

One large bank accused the former lender of commingling mortgagor payments in its general operating accounts instead of delivering those funds to a lockbox.

But high costs and any downturn in the economy could weigh on lenders and their commercial borrowers in coming months, economists caution.

City National Bank has tapped Howard Hammond, a 17-year veteran of Fifth Third Bancorp, as CEO of the Los Angeles-based bank, replacing Kelly Coffey, who will move to a newly-created role as CEO of the bank's entertainment unit.

In addition to expense-reduction measures, the Wisconsin-based regional bank is selling almost $2 billion of mortgages and securities and will invest in its lending and deposit-gathering capabilities.

The Wyoming bank has launched its signature service, amid a legal tug-of-war with the Federal Reserve.

Superintendent Harris led the takeover of Signature Bank after it failed this spring. She joins Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger to reflect on the lessons of this year's banking crisis, and how she is modernizing supervision.

The technology, which has its roots in cryptocurrency, could make corporate transactions more flexible.

Keynote address by Mary Callahan Erdoes, Chief Executive Officer at JPMorgan Chase's Asset and Wealth Management.

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