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Subordinated debt issuances and asset-backed securities have helped institutions of all asset sizes weather recent market uncertainties and fuel campaigns for growth, according to executives and investment experts.

Terry Dolan will see his role expand when two senior executives retire this summer, and will then hand over CFO duties to John Stern in September.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra said the systemically important financial institution designation should be considered for platforms such as PayPal, Venmo and Cash App.

As customers rushed to withdraw their deposits from the bank and applied for accounts at other institutions, criminals took advantage of the chaos.

Travis Hill, the Republican vice chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said poor interest rate risk management caused last month's bank failures and denounced calls to reinstate tighter supervisory standards on midsized regional banks.

The decrease in long-term interest rates this year has helped banks' bond portfolios recover a bit. Some of them may consider restructuring their securities portfolios in the short run, and longer-term changes are also possible as the fallout from last month's crisis continues.

Despite growing concerns about fraud, bankers and credit union lenders say PPP provided a crucial source of capital, backstopping the economy as it faced an unprecedented challenge from the pandemic.

Marqeta's new CEO faces steep challenges in dismantling the fintech's heavy dependence on Square and finding alternative sources of revenue as consumer spending slows.

Banks and credit unions compete head-to-head in many markets, so credit union CEOs take advantage of bank earnings season to gain a little extra intel. But many will scour first-quarter results as closely as ever to determine the impact of the banking crisis on deposits flows, lending and the overall economy.

The Columbus, Ohio, company expects to record a pretax gain of $57 million from the transaction, which will more than offset the costs of two other recently announced initiatives.

In wide-ranging remarks on the recent banking crisis, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said other regulators aren't using enough of their powers to supervise banks.

The American Bankers Association's latest Credit Conditions Index points to a drop in lending and a rise in loan delinquencies through the second and third quarters.

IntraFi, R&T Deposit Solutions and other companies help banks capture and insure the entirety of their customers' balances — a cogent need in the aftermath of SVB.

The collapse of several regional banks is spurring some publicly traded companies to add language identifying the banking sector as a potential area with negative consequences to the "risk factors" they include in regulatory filings.

Lexicon Bank's cautious approach to its balance sheet helped it weather the pandemic and avoid some of the mistakes that plagued other failed banks.

A former comptroller of the currency worries that, in the current frenzy to right crypto's wrongs, Washington will go too far and inadvertently undercut the U.S. banking system.

Two housing-policy experts whose previous recommendations have been closely followed by the Biden administration are defending the Federal Home Loan Banks, raising the stakes in a debate over whether a major overhaul is needed.

The six financial regulators that need to finish Dodd-Frank section 956, the executive compensation rule, would be better served legally by finishing a 2016 proposal rather than restarting the process, a group of progressive financial policy advocates wrote to regulators.

Eric Rosengren, who stepped down as CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 2021, has been elected an independent director of Berkshire Hill Bancorp. He's its second new board member this year.