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Harmonizing standards for liquidity coverage ratios and discount window pledges could prevent the type of strains that led to last year's bank failures, according to a new paper whose authors include former Federal Reserve Govs. Dan Tarullo and Jeremy Stein.
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Ally Financial ended a six-month search for its next chief executive by hiring Discover CEO Michael Rhodes. The move adds a new wrinkle to Discover's pending sale, though Discover said that Rhodes hadn't been expected to have a long-term role at Capital One following the merger's completion.
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The report seeks to help banks "disrupt rapidly evolving AI-driven fraud," according to Treasury's Nellie Liang. The report found banks have difficulties accounting for AI risks.
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The banking giant has launched an online platform that links small-business owners and entrepreneurs in need of capital to community development financial institutions. The platform was developed in partnership with Community Reinvestment Fund USA.
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A federal judge in New York ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission can proceed with its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency-trading platform Coinbase, claiming the company failed to register as a securities business.
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A panel at CBA Live explored the contract provisions banks need to consider before embarking on new banking-as-a-service relationships and what catches their eyes in consent orders from banking regulators.
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VersaBank in London, Ontario, agreed nearly two years ago to buy a small Minnesota bank. The buyer's CEO says he remains hopeful approval will come soon.
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U.S. financial markets are stronger and more resilient because of the contributions of international banks. But many aspects of the U.S. Basel III endgame proposal threaten to tilt the playing field against them.
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The bipartisan funding bill cuts financial services funding, but includes boons for the Small Business Administration and omits controversial legislation like Durbin 2.0.
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Amazon is working with Stripe to expand its Just Walk Out retail stores in Australia and Canada; Safaricom is working with Onafriq to support remittances sent via M-Pesa to Ethiopia; and more.
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A new crop of AI-powered products from Visa tackles scams beyond the company's network to include account-to-account payments and digital wallets.
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Each spring during the rush of annual meetings, a handful of financial institutions take heat from shareholders who demand new strategies, management shakeups and, at times, even a sale of the company.
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Despite pressure from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the embattled Appraisal Foundation tapped its longtime second-in-command to be its next president.
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A lawsuit filed by the American Fintech Council and two other trade groups has implications for other states that also want to keep out high-cost consumer lenders.
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The potential deal between the major card networks and merchants would see swipe fees reduced and capped for at least three years, pending approval by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to release neutral credit card pricing data in the coming months to help consumers get the best deal, according to Director Rohit Chopra. Deceptive reward programs, late fees and data portability remain concerns, too, he says.
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The credit card giant says that it is "proactively meeting" with advocacy organizations to gather feedback that would help with the creation of a community benefits plan. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which has negotiated 21 such deals since 2016, opposes Capital One's proposed acquisition of Discover.
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Preliminary rulings by a Pennsylvania judge will allow a jewelry company that claimed it lost $1.1 million to fraud to move forward with suing individual bank employees.
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A month after the collapse of FTX, federal prosecutors filed eight charges against crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried. Four of them involved wire fraud.
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First National has agreed to buy Touchstone Bankshares. The combined company would have more than $500 million each of deposits and loans.
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