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The bank has seen positive returns expanding its national branch network, but it is contending with fraudsters who are increasingly targeting branches.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told Synapse's partner banks, fintech companies and investors to pool together resources to immediately restore customer's access to deposits frozen in lengthy bankruptcy proceedings.

Even as more transactions go fully digital via apps and devices, one card manufacturer is betting that metal payment cards have a long-term future as status symbols — and secure payment devices.

CRTs have changed since the financial crisis. But the eventual credit cycle turn is likely to show again that weaker banks' CRT use merely transformed, but did not eliminate, risk.

In this edition of American Banker's news quiz, test yourself on the Synapse bankruptcy, the growth of alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Funding Circle's sale of U.S.-based assets and more.

Banking experts are divided on how regulators will reshape the capital overhaul and if reported revisions being floated by regulators will meet the banking industry's demands.

Two days after the Fed released the results of its annual stress tests, the nation's eight largest banks all announced plans to supplement their payouts to shareholders. At the same time, most of the banks also said that their capital requirements are expected to rise.

The Tennessee bank is the latest to be punished for lapses in oversight of fintech partners. Unlike most FDIC consent orders, the filing liberally uses the terms "fintech" and "BaaS."

The trade groups said Friday that a proposed rule from CISA would burden firms with overly broad reporting requirements as they scramble to respond to incidents.

New top executives were lined up for lenders across the West and Midwest, including Bank of North Dakota.

Executives from Citi and TDECU teased their plans for digital lending at American Banker's Digital Banking conference this week.

Bloom Credit Union and West Michigan Credit Union aim to join forces; Long Island-based New York Community Bancorp plans a reverse stock split; Providence, Rhode Island-based Citizens Financial hires longtime California banker to lead its middle-market team; and more in this week's banking news roundup.

The company says the FDIC's "pause letters" to banks and denial of Freedom of Information Act requests are illegal.

The high court's much-anticipated ruling gives federal courts — rather than executive agencies — the power to interpret ambiguous statutes. The decision is expected to facilitate an increase in litigation over banking regulations.

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a proposal mandating banks enhance their anti-money-laundering and counterterrorism financing programs, including measures to address fentanyl trafficking and Russian money laundering.

The value-added services unit of Visa, led by longtime Australian bank executive Anthony Cahill, covers nearly 200 global products in five categories, and recently produced a 23% quarterly increase in revenue over the prior year.

The real test of the value of investments in artificial intelligence and other tech upgrades is the generation of measurable value across a bank's lines of business.

Elizabeth Magennis started out as a teller in Brooklyn, New York, and is now the president of the $9.8 billion-asset ConnectOne Bank.

A landmark ruling by the Supreme Court's conservative majority means that defendants will have the right to a jury trial in cases where bank regulators are seeking civil penalties. The consequences for federal banking agencies are expected to be substantial.

Large and regional banks again proved their resiliency in the Fed's annual exams. But analysts noted that a few lenders faced some negative surprises — a development that may scuttle investor hopes for share buybacks by those banks.