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The Bank of England may cap ownership, drawing ire from crypto groups that claim that will hinder innovation.

Visa is introducing a premium service to the Middle East, and Lloyds Banking says its cash protection product is showing results. Plus, Brex teams up with Doordash and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.

Each year, American Banker chooses five teams that embody the spirit of collaboration and illustrate how teamwork can have a substantial impact on a bank's top and bottom lines.

The goal of the regional banking team members is to partner across their respective business lines or service areas to bring in more clients to BofA and to better serve existing clients.

Led by chief SBA lending officer Anna Chung, the team oversees Hanmi's Small Business Administration lending operation, a longstanding component of the $7.8 billion-asset company's business model.

Led by Jennifer Warren, who serves as the head of Wilmington Trust, the teamwork resulted in over $2 billion in revenue expansion for the institutional client services division.

The bank launched Business Essentials, a bundled suite of banking and payment services, following more than a year of development by a cross-functional team from business banking, branch and small business banking, payments, sales and technology teams.

Since the completion of the One Ally project in the first half of 2025, the bank reported 10.5% net deposit growth from customers who initially were not deposit holders.

Market watchers expect the Federal Open Market Committee to announce a 25 basis point rate cut today, but are also watching for signals of more cuts to come and how many members push for a larger 50 basis point cut.

Nancy Beaton, President of Uphold U.S. and CRO/CMO of Uphold Ambre Soubiran, CEO, Kaiko Raghav Chopra, Managing Partner, Tephra Digital Moderator: Holly Sraeel

A group of Democratic Senators led by Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged regulators to keep the 2023 Community Reinvestment Act overhaul, saying the rule was carefully crafted with bipartisan input.

As President Trump calls for scrapping quarterly earnings reports and switching to a six-month schedule, industry observers wonder whether the time saved would be worth the potential loss of transparency.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency director should spend less time on partisan attacks and social media posting, and more on trying to resolve the housing crisis.

Execs say other banks are still more of a rival for deposits than the digital currency.

At a banking conference this week, there was growing optimism that a key regulatory threshold will be raised from $100 billion to $250 billion.

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, may have violated federal privacy laws by releasing personal information on mortgages taken out by Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook — actions that served as a basis for President Trump's efforts to remove her from office late last month.

For the first time, this list of banking's rising stars aged 40 and younger is presented in ranked order, highlighting the depth and performance of the industry's top talent.

Ferris joined SMBC Nikko Securities America after leading CLO Primary at JPMorganChase.

Rohrkemper attributes her success at the bank to her engineering and teamwork mindset.

As the chief growth officer, Wu is tasked with customer acquisition and improving customer experience at the fledgling commercial bank, where she was an early employee.