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Long, founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, has pushed for digital-asset regulation in her home state of Wyoming. Now she's working on a national scale.

The payment processor Worldpay was originally supposed to be publicly traded. By taking the unit private and retaining a stake, FIS can remain competitive n merchant services.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to wipe out $9 billion a year in consumer costs by cutting credit card late fees to just $8. But consumer complaints about late fees remain low, and experts say that's because many first-time late fees are forgiven.

The top three fintech investors in the ranking have 42 combined VC investments at the end of Q1 2023.

AI and machine learning are the future of banking and financial services. Regulators and policymakers need to keep the pace.

A challenge to the SEC's use of administrative law judges could have big implications for bank regulators. The FDIC, Fed, OCC and CFPB could be forced to go to federal court in cases that would otherwise be handled in-house.

Michigan State University Federal Credit Union and its peers are streamlining branch design and staffing to improve customer service while managing the rising costs of real estate and construction.

Few large banks fully support the Spanish language. Those making the effort, including U.S. Bank and Square, could better reach a fast-growing population.

Byline Bancorp completed its acquisition of Inland Bancorp on time, avoiding the kind of regulatory delays that have dampened bank M&A activity for the past 18 months.

Jackie Reses, one of American Banker's Innovators of the Year for 2023, has started a de novo that will serve fintechs and crypto companies.

Merling is one of American Banker's Innovators of the Year.

Synthetic fraud — which combines real and false identifying information — has been a niche variety of identity theft for some time. But recent advancements in artificial intelligence and people's access to it might bring it into the mainstream in a big way.

Banks know what they're looking for. Here are key ways to show them that you can bring it to the table.

The Supreme Court's decision to strike down billions in debt forgiveness could make it harder for millions of Americans to pay back other kinds of debt. It also threatens to further curtail lending in an already sluggish credit market.

From his vantage point at the intersection of finance, tech and government, Cohn shares his views the banking crisis, global threats to U.S. competitiveness in tech and the future of the national economy.

Citizens made waves with its hires of around 50 private banking staff from First Republic. The head of wealth management at Citizens shared what's next.

Two executives behind BMO's purchase of Bank of the West from BNP Paribas discuss how the deal happened and what comes next for BMO.

JPMorgan Chase and Discover are among the firms developing new technology to allow more people to shop from behind the wheel.

One area of focus for the bank is using advanced artificial intelligence to detect business-email compromise. The payment messaging network Swift and online gambling host Caesars are also using AI to stop people from gaming their systems.

In this annual list, American Banker examines key metrics of the 10 highest performing small regional banks.