Banking

The Toronto-based bank named Rahul Nalgirkar as incoming finance chief. Nalgirkar, who joined BMO in 2022 from Fifth Third, will succeed the retiring Tayfun Tuzun, who came to BMO in 2020 after working at Fifth Third.

Community Financial in Syracuse has made its biggest investment ever in an outside company, taking a $37.4 million equity stake in an insurance provider that focuses on the rental housing market.

Creditors of the subprime auto lender Tricolor, which filed to liquidate in bankruptcy this month, are staking their claims on the company's remaining assets.

Nancy Beaton, President of Uphold U.S. and CRO/CMO of Uphold Ambre Soubiran, CEO, Kaiko Raghav Chopra, Managing Partner, Tephra Digital Moderator: Holly Sraeel

Starting Tuesday, the Spanish bank is allowing retail clients in Germany to trade Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Polygon and Cardano. Openbank will expand the number of available tokens over the coming months. 

Prosecutors say Daryl Heller lured 2,700 investors with promises of safe ATM profits but misappropriated $185 million.

The global fintech has said it will invest more than $500 million in the US in the coming years, and it expects to create hundreds of jobs.

The Denver-based bank-holding company's pending acquisition of Vista Bancshares in Dallas is an opportunity to expand into key fast-growing Texas markets and deepen its talent bench, CEO Tim Laney told analysts.

The bank's senior leadership is seeking a solution to perhaps its biggest challenge in over a decade: A $26 billion increase in capital requirements leveled by its home government, Switzerland. 

The perennial effort by state-level lawmakers and regulators to impose their will on national banks risks damaging a well-balanced system that has allowed the U.S. economy to thrive.

Execs say other banks are still more of a rival for deposits than the digital currency.

First Northwest Bancorp in Port Angeles has selected an Everett, Washington-based competitor's president to serve as its new top executive.

The AI-powered auto lender is the latest fintech to debut an IPO in recent months, even as a different auto lender filed for bankruptcy this week.

Origin Bancorp, Renasant Bank and Triumph Financial are the latest financial institutions to report exposure to the bankrupt auto lender Tricolor, joining a list that includes Fifth Third, Barclays and JPMorganChase.

First internet Bancorp, which has recently been grappling with credit quality issues, has agreed to sell an $869 million portfolio of single tenant commercial real estate loans to Blackstone.

Taylan Turan, who was previously HSBC Holdings' global CEO of retail banking, will join the Canadian bank later this month as chief operating officer.

Tricolor Holdings had been showing some cracks leading up to its bankruptcy filing Wednesday. Fifth Third, which had funded the company, said that the problem is a "one-off."