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With Robinhood Chain now live, the company is pushing into tokenized equities, stablecoin lending and international markets.

The former New York governor will chair a new effort aimed at tokenizing financial products on chain and bringing 24/7 digital trading to NYSE-listed assets.

The DTCC is building out a blockchain-based platform for post-trade processing and custody; if it works, it will mean a significant rewiring of the markets.

LendingClub has decided to rebrand itself as Happen Bank. What will happen to its ticker symbol?

Artificial intelligence developments are stoking investor fears about software companies. Banks' limited exposure to the sector and general stability is proving attractive to investors.

Financial institutions see an opportunity to nab scale after years of tepid dealmaking, but investors are pushing back against such efforts out of concerns about shareholder value.

Bank clients of Jack Henry's digital platform provider Banno can offer stock rewards programs directly to their customers via a partnership with Bits of Stock.

The Cleveland-based credit union recently launched a fractional stock rewards program for members ages 18 to 28 through a partnership with Bits of Stock.

Lynn Martin, NYSE's president, said the surge in retail investment bodes well for overall market health. 

Lenders have been an underdog in the broader market's rally. Now, with stress-test results and the easing of bank capital rules on the horizon, there's a chance for bank stocks to break out.

Ark Investment Management has offloaded about 1.5 million shares of Circle over four recent trading sessions, worth roughly $333 million, according to Bloomberg. Wood's firm as a whole remains the eighth-largest holder of Circle.

The stock started trading at $31 and closed Monday at $263.45. Circle has been the main beneficiary of the euphoria surrounding stablecoin regulations, as it is one of the few publicly traded companies with stablecoin-linked assets.

Bankers' surveys of commercial clients have found that corporate decision-makers are less concerned about adverse tariff effects than nervous investors.

Investors brushed off a potentially prolonged week of U.S. election results and instead focused on fresh economic data.

Third-party origination operations are also going to Mr. Cooper in the $1.4 billion deal, in which the seller cited interest in improving its capital position.

In this month's roundup of top banking news: a cease-and-desist issued by the Federal Reserve, high CFO turnover, the end of Chevron deference and more.

Trading halts caused by an error affected 40 stocks Monday morning, including BMO Bank and Banco Santander-Chile.

Orders on the NASDAQ exchange were unable to execute early Monday morning because of an error with the exchange's price discovery tool. The error has since been resolved.

The stock prices of five of these banks fell by more than 7% on the day they announced their fourth-quarter results, including two with double-digit decreases.

But at the same time, the publicly traded company is selling off another type of housing finance asset to some large depository institutions.