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The movement of cash to money market funds from bank accounts will diminish lenders' ability to finance small and midsize firms, BlackRock Investment Institute said in a new paper. BlackRock and other money managers have spent much of this year readying to fill that void.

Net income was $2.06 billion in the third quarter, down 33% from a year earlier, amid sluggish banking activity, real estate write-downs and questions about whether dealmaking will rebound.

The web-hosting company is updating its point-of-sale hardware and partnering with the company behind the Paze digital wallet as part of an effort to serve its clients' needs beyond e-commerce.

Far more than most people, financial services professionals ought to understand the compounding crisis of climate change.

The second-largest U.S. bank says net interest income, a key source of revenue for the bank, rose 4.5% to $14.4 billion in the third quarter.

Not only could warehouse lines of credit be impacted by the U.S. version of international Basel rules, and financing secured by mortgage servicing rights may be, too.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, is pushing a bill to re-freeze Iranian funds made available after a Biden-negotiated hostage deal last month. Scott says the move is a response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Billy Beale joined the small Virginia bank in May, several months after its fintech partnership strategy landed it in hot water with regulators. "There's still a lot of just blocking and tackling that we've got to do to get the bank to work the way it's supposed to," he says.

It's been a rocky few years for senior housing as the sector recovers from its COVID occupancy drop and its profitability takes a hit. But bankers see long-term opportunities amid an aging U.S. population and say their portfolios are healthy.

The bank argues federal law preempts a New York state statute requiring at least 2% interest payments on borrowers' accounts.

Mark Smith, most recently head of the firm's treasury and trade solutions division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will take on the treasurer role on an interim basis. 

The deal, first announced in September 2022, would have given Taichung Commercial Bancorp a foothold in several U.S. markets.

Banks, regulators and public interest groups have sparred for years over whether exam and other supervisory information should be public and to what degree. However, the recent sharing of CSI with a news organization has pushed the policy fight back into the spotlight.

On JPMorgan Chase's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Jamie Dimon debated with Wells Fargo Securities analyst Mike Mayo over whether recent advances in AI present an advantage to traditional banks or to their challengers.

The biggest U.S. bank is selling green bonds for the first time in over two years as sales of the debt accelerate at a record pace. 

While the latest change applies specifically to COVID forbearances, the agency is looking at more options for alternatives that can be offered on a regular basis, Director Sandra Thompson said.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has mandated banks to sell dollar-denominated additional tier 1 bonds, in what looks set to be the first such offering in the U.S. currency by any Japanese lender. 

The Securities and Exchange Commission will not ask a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that paves the way for Grayscale Investments to launch a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Westlake, Texas, firm said deposits fell 28% to $284.4 billion in the third quarter from the year prior, beating the $268.8 billion average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Crypto lending is still small compared with the leverage bubble that took down large swathes of the sector when it burst in 2022, and executives say they've taken pains to avoid a repeat.