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    JPMorgan to pay $330M to settle 1MDB claims

    Swiss authorities, in a connected case, fined the bank $3.7 million after the lender was found guilty of failing to prevent aggravated money laundering.

    By Aug. 22, 2025
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    OCC lifts Anchorage Digital consent order

    The only cryptocurrency firm with a national bank charter has invested tens of millions of dollars in compliance infrastructure to remedy issues noted in a 2022 consent order, CEO Nathan McCauley said.

    By Aug. 22, 2025
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    Top 5 stories from Banking Dive

    Since the approval of Capital One’s acquisition of Discover, banks have increasingly waded into new deals. Beyond that, they’ve doubled down on strategy, from organic growth to branch placement to app design.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Ex-JPMorgan, PNC, TD bankers banned by OCC

    The eight former bankers are prohibited from the industry after regulators found instances of misappropriation of funds and customer impersonation.

    By Aug. 22, 2025
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    Fed’s Waller pushes deeper ties with ‘innovators’

    The Federal Reserve has begun “technical research” on financial technology, including tokenization and AI in payments, the central bank governor said Wednesday.

    By Justin Bachman • Aug. 22, 2025
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    CFPB seeks comments for new open banking rule

    The agency wants to learn about costs, fees and consumer data risks associated with open banking as it seeks to revise a 2024 rule.

    By Justin Bachman • Aug. 22, 2025
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    Dive Deposits: Ahead of Jackson Hole, the spotlight is everywhere but on Jerome Powell

    Mortgage fraud allegations against another Fed governor, Lisa Cook, returned the focus to the Trump team’s push to re-mold the central bank.

    By Aug. 21, 2025
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    Customers CEO talks lessons learned from Fed enforcement action

    After investing to strengthen its risk management practices, the Pennsylvania bank now seeks to jump on the favorable atmosphere for digital-asset activities.

    By Aug. 21, 2025
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    Ex-Regions teller banned from banking after alleged theft

    Markel O’Neal Calhoun stole nearly $18,000 from the bank last February, the Federal Reserve alleged.

    By Aug. 20, 2025
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    FDIC would give banks flexibility on digital signage in proposed rule

    The proposal focuses display requirements toward screens and webpages most relevant to consumers, simplifying rules for signage on bank websites, mobile apps and ATMs.

    By Aug. 20, 2025
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    Truist settles web tracker lawsuit

    California resident John Tasker sued the North Carolina lender in May for alleged privacy law violations. He filed a similar lawsuit against BMO that remains active.

    By Aug. 19, 2025
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    Fed nixes novel activities supervision program

    The Federal Reserve’s oversight of banks’ crypto and fintech activities will be folded back into the normal supervisory process, the central bank said Friday.

    By Aug. 18, 2025
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    GOP lawmaker seeks probe into StanChart sanctions case

    Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, urged U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch an investigation into Standard Chartered Bank’s “illicit payments” and related “inaction” from New York’s attorney general.

    By Aug. 18, 2025
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    DC Circuit reopens path to CFPB firings

    The split ruling vacates a preliminary injunction that prevented Trump administration officials from cutting 95% of the bureau’s employees.

    By Aug. 15, 2025
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    Trump scraps Biden order that toughened M&A standards

    The revocation Wednesday undoes the previous administration’s “flawed philosophical underpinning” for “undue hostility” toward mergers and acquisitions, Trump’s FTC chair said.

    By Aug. 15, 2025
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    FDIC oversight of large third parties needs clearer goals, OIG says

    While the FDIC has “taken steps to establish goals and metrics” in its oversight of large third-parties, they were not “measurable or directly linked to program success factors.”

    By Aug. 15, 2025
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    Ethics questions cloud Bessent’s assets

    The treasury secretary is delayed in complying with a conflict-of-interest agreement to divest certain investments, including farmland. He received an extension and pledged to comply, but that’s not enough for some.

    By Aug. 14, 2025
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    Embezzlement cases engulf Alabama, Tennessee bankers

    An Alabama banker made roughly 273 fraudulent ACH transactions totaling over $2.3 million, the DOJ said. Last week, the Fed banned an ex-First Horizon banker over embezzlement charges.

    By Aug. 14, 2025
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    Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud counts

    Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of 12 years, and $19 million in penalties, as long as Kwon doesn’t commit any more crimes.

    By Aug. 13, 2025
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    Warren, Democrats ask Fed, FDIC, OCC to justify eSLR cuts

    The lawmakers want more data and an extended comment deadline on a proposed reduction to big banks’ capital holdings – echoing Republican calls on the Fed’s ill-fated 2023 Basel III proposal.

    By Aug. 12, 2025
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    CFPB moves to hold Synapse accountable for missing customer funds

    The CFPB alleged the now-bankrupt Synapse failed to maintain adequate records of consumers’ funds and match them with its partner banks, leading to an unrecovered loss of $60 million to $90 million.

    By Aug. 11, 2025
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    Warren urges Fed to activate countercyclical capital buffer

    The Fed has never activated the framework, which would force banks to add a capital cushion. Sen. Elizabeth Warren thinks it’s time to do so – and is asking why the central bank has not voted on the measure in five years.

    By Aug. 11, 2025
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    Republican senators take aim at MRA process

    Eleven GOP senators are urging banking agency heads to make changes to the process around matters requiring attention, which they argue lacks “structure, uniformity and legal basis.”

    By Aug. 11, 2025
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    Trump taps economic adviser Stephen Miran for Fed post

    Miran, an architect of Trump’s tariff policy, would be a temporary fix. He’d serve the remainder of outgoing Fed Gov. Adriana Kugler’s term, buying time for Trump to finalize his pick for central bank chair.

    By Aug. 8, 2025
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    Trump takes aim at debanking

    An executive order the president issued Thursday demands that regulators remove reputational risk from evaluations and to review complaint data for instances of religion-based debanking.

    By Aug. 8, 2025
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    UBS quits climate alliance amid global exodus

    The Swiss lender said its “ambition to being a leader in sustainability is unchanged” and that it will continue to “progress [its] sustainability and impact strategy.”

    By Zoya Mirza • Aug. 7, 2025