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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is preparing to pick winners and losers in the consumer lending market, stifling innovation and curtailing freedom of choice.

The troubled Long Island-based lender laid out steps that it's taking to improve its loan-review process. The remediation efforts follow a massive loan provision last quarter, which led to a management shake-up and a $1 billion rescue led by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

The Paris court of appeals ruled against Bernard Mourad, saying the bank's cash and shares incentive programs "sought to ensure his loyalty in the long term." The judges said they were distinct from his performance compensation — covered by his salary and discretionary bonus.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims trade groups have no jurisdiction to file a lawsuit in Texas to stop the bureau's $8 credit card late fee rule, saying the plaintiffs engaged in "forum-shopping" to seek the most favorable outcome.

The credit bureau's data analytics portal, OneTru, hosts all previously offered products on a hybrid cloud-based platform and uses guides powered by artificial intelligence to streamline query processes.

Like many of its peers, the bank is evolving its virtual assistant to be more personalized and to incorporate a large language model, but it's not quite ready to turn on customer-facing generative AI.

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate for conforming loans fell, according to Freddie Mac, even as the 10-year Treasury yield rose nearly 18 basis points from the start of this week.

The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency both cited the nation's largest bank for having "inadequate" policies around firm and client trading activities.

If former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin follows through with a purchase of the controversial social media app, it will be the second high-profile deal he will have marshaled this year after leading a $1 billion equity investment in the troubled New York Community Bancorp.

The pandemic reduced the number of daily mass-transit commuters, but the accompanying surge of contactless payments is expanding and diversifying transit systems' demographic reach, according to data from the card network.

The Navy Federal scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. After looking away for 20 years, Congress needs to focus on providing real oversight of the credit union industry.

Larger banks are responsible for a special assessment to cover the costs of the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The price tag has ballooned by $4.1 billion, and trade groups are criticizing the FDIC's process, arguing that it lacks transparency.

Federal Reserve officials have hammered home the importance of bank readiness to borrow from the discount window. Getting banks to actually do so may require the Fed to make structural improvements to the system.

A bipartisan group of senators called on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to exercise transparency and expedience in evaluating industrial loan company applications, which grant a type of charter industry experts say is unlikely to be issued in this administration.

Peapack-Gladstone's wealth unit is pursuing an ambitious de novo expansion in New York and perhaps elsewhere because M&A has become expensive as private equity money has inflated seller expectations.

The Congressional Budget Office put an estimate on the net government subsidy provided to the Federal Home Loan Bank System, including the so-called "implied guarantee," on bonds priced and sold to investors.

Analysts estimate the probe, which remains unresolved, could lead to a fine of between $500 million and $1 billion, and Toronto-Dominion has already said it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve its risk and control infrastructure. 

The new team at Dime Community Bancshares intends to attract funding from an array of niche business segments, including medical billing, so-called death care services and hedge funds.

The custody bank will offer clients technology from Microsoft that lets them analyze their data in near-real time, hosted on the latest versions of Microsoft's public and private clouds.