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Five Star Bank, which is based in a rural part of New York state, has embraced digital lending, banking-as-a-service, real-time payments, bitcoin and more. “Those that don’t innovate don’t survive,” says Chief Administrative Officer Sean Willett.

The companies' moves came a day after Visa and Mastercard said they were halting business in Russia because of its attack on Ukraine.

The $7.6 billion deal was originally expected to close in the fourth quarter of last year, but the banks had pushed back their deadline until June. Once the merger is complete, the combined bank will have more than $200 billion in assets.

Empire Financial Federal Credit Union had been placed into conservatorship by the National Credit Union Administration in May because of “unsafe and unsound practices.” Another credit union has assumed its assets and deposits.

The White House is rejecting Republican demands to split up its nominees to the Federal Reserve, with President Biden’s spokeswoman telling GOP lawmakers to show up and vote no on Sarah Bloom Raskin rather than further stalling consideration.

As return-to-office plans accelerate — with hopes they will stick this time —  many bosses are embracing new setups and perks meant to evoke the comforts of home. At Mizuho Americas, Bank of Montreal and Deutsche Bank, the changes have gone even further: New York workers came back from the pandemic to entirely different buildings. 

The deal with HBI Employees Credit Union follows two other mergers Spire struck last year that brought it to $1.9 billion of assets.

Here is a rundown of the regulatory, diversity, competitive and other challenges that executives explored at the Credit Union National Association's annual gathering in Washington.

The hacker group is threatening to publish personal data from multiple U.S. financial institutions and using known vulnerabilities to get into their systems.

Russia reverberations, a rebranding, a resignation and more in banking news this week.

The misclassification of certain cash flows in 2021 was a “material weakness,” according to a securities filing. Management restated the relevant financial statements and promised to lay out a “plan to remediate” the issue.

Daily edition for March 04, 2022

Credit unions and banks need to ask themselves if they're finding ways to say "yes" to consumers who too often hear "no" from mainstream institutions. Otherwise, they perpetuate a system that excludes the poor and people of color and drive them toward nonbanks, said Pablo DeFilippi of Inclusiv Network and other experts.

A judge’s decision puts new pressure on the brokerage industry watchdog and the SEC.

The Louisiana-based Barksdale has agreed to purchase HomeBank of Arkansas. It is the fourth deal involving the sale of a bank to a credit union in less than two weeks.

The Canadian banking giant cited labor shortages, rising inflation and the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as reasons for keeping loan-loss allowances above pre-pandemic levels.

Fintech deals totaled $348.5 billion in 2021. Here are the trends causing the record transaction wave.

Tricia Szurgot is joining Securityplus from First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union in Pennsylvania.

Senate Democrats insist the GOP's boycott of President Biden's picks for the Federal Reserve is interfering with the central bank's handling of an economic crisis. But GOP lawmakers say the Fed is functioning fine and their concerns about nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin are material.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen outlined steps the department is taking to mitigate climate risk, including a report on the regulatory gaps in the insurance industry.