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Chime CEO: Pursuing bank charter is ‘a when, not if’
The fintech regularly reevaluates the potential timing of an inevitable push for a charter, Chime CEO Chris Britt said Monday, as regulators see an influx of applications.
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Wells Fargo agrees to $110M lending, hiring discrimination settlement
The bank’s borrower assistance fund “represents a meaningful step toward expanding equitable access to financial services,” a judge wrote.
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StanChart eyes more than 7,800 job cuts by 2030 in AI embrace
The London bank aims to boost income per employee by 20% – and will reduce risk management, compliance and HR roles as part of that effort.
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PNC snags JPMorgan vet to lead retail bank’s product, digital
Tim Ferriter joins the Pittsburgh-based bank after an 18-year tenure at JPMorgan.
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Ally sharpens branchless banking message
The digital bank is courting millennial and Gen Z customers with a new brand platform that arguably throws playful shade on the brick-and-mortar model.
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Hancock Whitney to buy Orlando-area bank for $377.6M
The Mississippi lender will acquire One Florida Bank, stretching its presence in the central part of the Sunshine State.
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Standard Chartered taps investor relations chief as next CFO
Manus Costello will step in as the bank moves forward with stablecoin expansion and preps for an upcoming investor day.
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FDIC: Top depositors led 2023 runs at failed regional banks
Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank each lost about half of their deposits in a matter of days in early March 2023, the regulator found.
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Stellantis gets FDIC’s ILC charter approval
The car manufacturer joins Ford and GM in receiving regulatory approvals this year to obtain an industrial loan company charter.
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How Alaska’s Credit Union 1 serves ‘banking tundras’
CEO Mark Burgess discusses the challenges of serving disparate, isolated communities – from transporting teller machines by plane to using remote capabilities to capture loan signatures.
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Senate panel approves crypto bill
The Clarity Act – with stablecoin yield language intact – moved to the full Senate. Some last-minute amendments resurfaced, but an anti-money laundering measure was denied.
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CFPB’s Vought defends terminating Citi consent order
“There are no unfulfilled obligations as of the date of termination, and Citi committed to ongoing monitoring regardless of termination,” the CFPB acting director wrote to lawmakers this week.
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New England mutual banks partner but it’s ‘not an acquisition’
New Hampshire-based Mascoma Bank and Maine-based Androscoggin Bank will combine their parent companies into a new mutual holding company. “Scale in banking matters,” Mascoma CEO Clay Adams said.
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Senate confirms Warsh as next Fed chair
The mostly party-line vote comes amid concerns of whether Kevin Warsh will maintain central bank independence or hew closer to President Trump’s interest-rate demands than his predecessor.
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Fintech Parker files for bankruptcy
“Three weeks ago, I thought Parker was going to be acquired in a deal worth nearly $90M,” the fintech’s co-founder, Yacine Sibous, wrote Saturday. “Yesterday, we filed for Chapter 7.”
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EagleBank hires Western Alliance exec as its next CEO
The hire ends a six-month search that drew criticism from an activist investor pushing Eagle to reduce commercial real estate-related risk.
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Regions taps BofA vet to lead Texas growth push
“What really differentiates Regions is our people,” new Texas consumer executive Christina Clemmons said. “We have to capitalize on that.”
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CFPB alum Chopra to lead California consumer agency
Former CFPB head Rohit Chopra will lead a new state agency with oversight of the Department of Consumer Affairs and Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, among others.
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Dive Deposits: Affirm’s AI stance runs counter to trend
While some fintechs are content to do more with less through AI, BNPL platform Affirm simply aims to do more, as its top execs eschew human layoffs in favor of artificial intelligence.
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BMO to sell transportation, vendor finance businesses
The Toronto-based bank will take a 19.9% equity interest in the new entity as part of its deal with alternative investment firm Stonepeak.
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JPMorgan invests $14M in anti-fraud projects
Funds will support seven organizations intent on protecting consumers from expensive scams, the bank said Tuesday.
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White House taps Treasury assistant as NCUA’s next chair
John Crews, Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary for financial institutions policy, would replace Kyle Hauptman, the NCUA’s only board member.
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U.S. Bank shifts critical apps to AWS for AI push
The Minneapolis-based lender joins a growing list of banks looking to upgrade foundational infrastructure to better support AI initiatives.
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Citizens targets tweaks to boost CX
Marking his first year as the lender’s consumer-banking chief, Matt Boss aims to drill down on why customers should choose Citizens and the value they get from the relationship.
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Capital One flags debanking fight in quarterly filing
The bank “is responding to demands and requests” related to “fair access to banking,” it said. The Trump Organization has until July 2 to refile its claim that the bank politically debanked the president.