Banking

The head of global operations at Anchorage Digital said she's encountered a lot of skepticism about the need for digital asset infrastructure.

The chairman and CEO of Vast Holdings, parent of Vast Bank, believes banks that don't embrace innovation will be at risk.

The chief operating officer of Bitgo says banks will need flatter organizations when they participate in on-chain finance.

As governors prepare to designate new "opportunity zones," lenders and investors should take advantage of the chance to target capital to communities where it will both do good and generate strong returns.

The New York AG is alleging banks aren't doing enough to combat fraud on Zelle, but online fraud might be too big for even the nation's biggest banks to fight.

Some analysts and investors zeroed in Thursday on weaker net interest income guidance. But Huntington executives said they expect strong second-half results.

A New York judge refused to dismiss Attorney General Letitia James's suit accusing Zelle's operator of enabling more than $1 billion in scams.

Optus Financial in South Carolina will acquire M&F Bancorp in North Carolina in a deal that's set to create one of the largest Black banks in the United States.

The Hugging Face breach gives bank executives reason to rethink some of their technology choices.

The company, which has conditional approval for a bank charter, hit a $1 billion valuation with fintech exec backing from firms such as Nubank and Revolut.

An OpenAI program managed to escape its sandbox, go out on the web and find another AI platform, and hack it. Not even OpenAI expected that.

The intrusion did not affect the financial industry directly. But it presents a warning to banks that are deploying agentic AI.

Only 13% of scams reach federal agencies. The rest land at banks and payment apps, making them the country's de facto scam-reporting system.

Following a recent approval by the European Central Bank, Banco Santander's pending acquisition of Webster Financial is expected to close before the end of 2026, executives said. There's been concern that the deal could get tangled up in tensions between the U.S. and Spain.

The planned acquisition of Finward Bancorp would bolster the Ohio bank's growing Chicago-area franchise, creating a platform big enough to support an organic buildout.

A study of consumer-banking queries fielded by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews found the nation's largest bank has nearly a third of the models' mindshare.

As the regulatory landscape for digital assets becomes clearer, it is vital that stablecoin reserves, custody and settlement services, and the provision of liquidity not be concentrated within a small number of companies.

Capital One Financial executives on Tuesday provided updates on the company's integration of its recent acquisitions of Discover Financial Services and payments-focused fintech Brex.

Until this quarter, car-loan delinquencies for the Detroit-based bank had been steadily dropping. But in the spring of 2026, that momentum showed signs of slowing.

For some banks, surging loan growth isn't all a bed of roses, as funding the increased volume often results in a certain amount of net-interest-margin dilution.