Commercial banking

Noelle Acheson pulls the bill that would ban the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency into the spotlight and argues that it's overreaching, unnecessary and distracts attention from more pressing privacy issues.

The former head of resolutions at the FDIC has high hopes for a bank that's been embroiled in the Synapse disaster.

Big banks with the strongest financial performance varied in asset size, geographies and services.

Each of the top-performing banks with more than $50 billion of assets used their own mix of revenue streams to drive performance.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said the Fed is not tied to Wall Street or political interests and that independence is necessary to prevent inflation.

The payment company is collaborating with Brazil's national real-time payment network to reach more e-commerce merchants, while adding Affirm as an option to its in-store point of sale system. That, and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.

The scams are becoming increasingly harder to detect, as fraudsters mimic authentic communications from banks.

Washington Trust Bank is executing a slow-but-steady de novo expansion inside the I-5 corridor on the western side of its home state. Its newest branch is slated to open this fall in Tacoma.

Cash-flow management tools: The ability for small business customers to access digital cash flow management tools will enable them to have real-time insights based on financial data,

New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges that Zelle's parent company, Early Warning Services, failed to adopt basic safeguards to combat fraud. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismissed a similar lawsuit in March without an explanation.