According to the bank, Cecile de Jongh, the wife of former USVI Governor John de Jongh, was Epstein's "primary conduit for spreading money and influence throughout the USVI government." 

The Kentucky-based bank plans to acquire the $234 million-asset Sumner Bank & Trust in central Tennessee in a transaction expected to close in the fourth quarter.

The San Francisco-based bank — which regulators seized and sold to JPMorgan Chase early this month — was paying dozens of employees more than $10 million apiece annually in the heyday before its collapse.

Investments in carbon-removal credits could help scale new technologies, and they offer certain benefits over the purchase of carbon offset credits. But critics said the $200 million investment is small in comparison with the bank's commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia increased provisions for loan losses in their fiscal second quarters amid a macroeconomic outlook that's continuing to darken.

Citi was unable to reach a deal despite more than a year of talks with a long list of suitors for its consumer, small-business and middle-market banking divisions across Mexico.

The regional bank made the deal as part of an effort to bolster liquidity following turmoil among its peers.

Senior Bank of America investment banker Jill Schwartz discusses her own board roles, how women can serve on nonprofit boards, and how they can drive change, in conversation with Chana Schoenberger, American Banker's Editor-in-Chief.

The banking giant plans to put all asset managers through training in Python programming language, whether they 'like it or not.'

Traders added $2.1 billion to short positions in regional banks for the five-day week ending May 19, a net increase of about $2 billion from a week earlier, according to data from S3 Partners LLC.

The $15 a share price represents a 121% premium to where Greenhill's stock traded at the close of Friday, before the deal was announced.

JPMorgan bought First Republic Bank earlier this month after it became the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history and the fourth regional-bank collapse this year.

In April, the government extended a plan to continue selling down its stake in NatWest, which was around 84% at its peak. The latest disposal means the U.K. has sold more than half its shareholding.

The fact that SoftBank, one of the world's most aggressive tech investors, is looking at private credit is more evidence of the market's rapid growth.

The bank said it agreed to sell a $2.6 billion portfolio of 74 real estate construction loans as part of its plan to shore up liquidity.

The three-year-old law required banks and other corporations based in the nation's most populous state to appoint a minimum number of board members from designated underrepresented communities. A federal judge said that it imposed an unconstitutional racial quota.

Deposits at commercial banks decreased by $26.4 billion in the week ended May 10 to $17.1 trillion, according the Federal Reserve. The drop was mostly at large banks.

The move threatens to upend efforts by the billionaire German Larrea's Grupo Mexico to purchase the retail operations of Banamex, one of the country's oldest banks, from Citigroup.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams says there is no evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic has ended the era of very low interest rates experienced before the crisis, although growth may be slower in the long run.

Louisiana Credit Union League names new CEO, scammer who helped criminals pose as bankers jailed for 13 years, Jack Dorsey leads funding round for bitcoin voucher company and more in this week's banking news roundup.