BofA's Seattle shake-up, board "refreshment" at a Phoenix bank and more in banking news this week.

Rushing to create a central bank digital currency that is not permissionless and private would be dangerous to core American principles, according to a Minnesota Republican.

Coinbase Global waived fees for converting Tether Holdings' stablecoin USDT for the token Coinbase backs, as competition heats up among the three biggest issuers of such digital assets.

Sam Bankman-Fried missed the deadline set by a U.S. Senate committee for a response to a request to testify at a Dec. 14 hearing about FTX's collapse into bankruptcy.

While Silvergate said this month it has "a resilient balance sheet and ample liquidity," and analysts call its financials sound, the bank is today contending with a question as difficult as the one that led it to crypto in the first place: whether the experiment was worth it.

China and other countries are already working on their own central bank digital currency. Creating an American CBDC would ensure the dollar's place as a global reserve currency, a Connecticut Democrat writes.

Publicly traded companies exposed to the "crypto winter" and the collapse of FTX or other digital-asset companies might have to disclose those details to investors under new guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

FTX's new chief executive and bankruptcy lawyers met with Manhattan federal prosecutors investigating the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse and allegations that it misused customer funds and lost billions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants an accounting from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and other top bank watchdogs on the links that major lenders have with the crypto industry following FTX's spectacular collapse.

U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Patrick Toomey have asked Sam Bankman-Fried to testify at a hearing on Dec. 14 about the cryptocurrency exchange FTX's collapse, according to a letter issued Wednesday.