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New Jersey’s BCB appoints new CEO
New chief executive Thomas O'Brien said he intends to “undertake an aggressive program” to address areas of improvement at the bank.
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FDIC bans, fines ex-bank CEO involved in Supreme Court case
Harry C. Calcutt III allegedly negotiated and approved a series of unsafe and unsound transactions and then concealed them from regulators, the FDIC alleged.
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5 takeaways from Jerome Powell’s award speech
The former Federal Reserve chair emphasized the importance of central bank independence in receiving the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award for his resistance to pressure from President Donald Trump.
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Scotiabank to buy Dallas-centered commercial bank
Buying MapleMark Bank allows the Canadian lender to offer FDIC insurance to clients and furthers its North American growth goals, an executive said.
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Ex-TD employee pleads guilty in bank fraud
A former employee at a TD branch in New York facilitated about $3.4 million in fraud by stealing from customers and bribing an employee at another bank, the Justice Department said.
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CFPB orders return to a new, smaller DC headquarters
Employees based outside the Washington area will be expected to report by Aug. 31, according to a memo. However, the headquarters has space for just 550 of the bureau’s 1,100 workers.
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Bank consolidation may stunt innovation: research
Consolidation may alter banks’ risk tolerances, making them more inclined to extend loans to bigger, established companies than smaller, riskier borrowers, said Oudom Hean, a professor at North Dakota State University.
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GreenSky to pay $10M to state AGs
The home-improvement lender, once owned by Goldman Sachs, operated a “predatory loan scheme,” according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Wells Fargo CEO: AI’s effect on employment is ‘complicated’
The bank's biggest AI-related challenge is determining how the technology can transform its business model and how the lender should respond, Charlie Scharf said Wednesday.
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CFTC asks judge to vacate $5M Gemini penalty
A onetime CFTC chair nominee alleged Gemini’s founders grilled him on the case, then lobbied the White House to stall his nomination.
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CFPB faces lawsuit over fair housing rule change
The agency’s final rule amending how the Equal Credit Opportunity Act is applied “effectively guts” fair lending protections, according to four plaintiffs.
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OCC cites AML deficiencies at NY bank that partners with fintechs
New York City-based Community Federal Savings Bank, a partner to Wise and Crypto.com, faces an enforcement action over what the regulator deemed an inadequate suspicious activity alert system.
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JPMorgan CEO: AI may create things ‘we’re going to lose at’
Jamie Dimon also indicated Wednesday the top U.S. bank is “on the lookout” for acquisitions and sees “a chance to put $10 [billion] or $20 billion to work buying something.”
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LendingClub CEO expects ‘skinned knees’ amid fintech charter rush
Fintechs that want to become banks should brace for “a learning curve” as they ramp up governance, risk and compliance infrastructure, said LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn.
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California judge rules in favor of OppFi, against regulator
A judge ruled that OppFi sufficiently demonstrated that its banking partner was the true lender of OppLoans, and that their relationship wasn’t a “rent-a-bank ruse.”
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Coinbase rolls out refreshed direct-deposit feature
The crypto exchange raised its ceiling on deposit limits, but the Clarity Act’s restrictions on passive stablecoin earnings may present a challenge.
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Ohio’s Northwest Bank taps Wells Fargo alum as CIO
Chad Ballard brings 25 years of IT experience to the $17 billion-asset Ohio-based bank.
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Regions to pay DOJ $4.9M over PPP loan allegations
Although it disagreed with the claims, the bank said it settled with the Justice Department this month “with the goal of closing this chapter and moving on.”
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Goldman chief of staff to leave bank in June
Russell Horwitz, a nearly two-decade alum of the bank, will become an advisory director once he departs, according to a memo.
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Wells Fargo’s $85M ‘sham’ diversity settlement gets judge’s approval
The bank a week earlier agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit related to similar issues.
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Fed, FDIC give green light to biggest US banks’ living wills
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi and Goldman Sachs, additionally, have “adequately addressed” shortcomings found in the banks’ previous emergency wind-down plans, the agencies said Friday.
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Goldman Sachs to pay shareholders $500M in 1MDB settlement
“The settlement is an outstanding result for the class,” attorneys for Sjunde AP-Fonden, a Swedish pension fund, wrote in the filing.
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Morgan Stanley exemption comes under fire
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, asked three regulators to revoke their approval of a Morgan Stanley restructuring, drawing parallels to scandals that engulfed JPMorgan Chase and Citi.
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StanChart CEO apologizes over ‘lower-value human capital’ comment
CEOs from JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Barclays added their takes to polarizing remarks by StanChart chief Bill Winters, in explaining his bank's increasing embrace of AI.
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CFPB erases pre-Trump 2.0 history
The consumer watchdog eliminated dozens of press releases, speeches and public statements Tuesday, all of which were published before February 2025.