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Scott Simpson, the next CEO of America's Credit Unions, talked to American Banker about how he plans to fend off a "clear attempt to try to destroy the business model."

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said the private sector and central bank play complementary roles in payment innovation and stressed the need to maintain that collaboration as crypto technologies become more mainstream.

Consumer advocates are urging lawmakers to hold hearings on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new open banking rule and whether Congress authorized banks to charge fees for data access.

Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman warned that focusing too much on technology risks could make banks lose relevance with customers.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., asked crypto firms to keep spending in elections, and said that they "literally" put Bernie Moreno, Sherrod Brown's successor in Ohio, in the Senate.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. proposed a rule Tuesday that would allow banks to remove FDIC insurance labels except on initial webpages and no longer require alerts warning customers that non-deposit products are not insured.

As bank regulators work to create a more transparent and effective supervisory process, they should overhaul the process for appealing their rulings to include challenges to enforcement actions.

The tests modeled how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would fare after absorbing losses like a total $36.1 billion provision in credit losses in a severe downturn.

The Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump has not apportioned any discretionary awards to financial institutions in the fiscal year of 2025, according to new documents released by the agency.

The Treasury Department issued a request for comment Monday, seeking input on four categories of technology that could be used to detect and combat illicit financial activity in crypto assets.