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Banks, fintechs navigate market's appetite for crypto amid pending regulatory guidance
From Bitcoin rewards to custody services for digital assets, banks and fintechs are carving out strategies and services tied to crypto as regulators seek to catch up with guidance.
By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 22, 2021 -
UBS nominates ex-Morgan Stanley No. 2 Kelleher as next chair
The executive would work alongside CEO Ralph Hamers on, among other initiatives, the launch of a digital bank in the U.S. targeting customers with between $250,000 and $2 million in assets.
By Dan Ennis • Nov. 22, 2021 -
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Banks must decide whether to forge AI tools in-house or partner with outside firms. AI’s importance can’t be understated, but legacy tech may also constrain the budget for banks looking to innovate.
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OCC orders Chicago bank entangled in Manafort scandal to boost controls
Federal Savings Bank must create a panel that will update the regulator monthly on the lender's efforts to improve risk management, anti-money laundering and consumer compliance standards.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 19, 2021 -
U.S. Bank to buy travel and expense management fintech TravelBank
After a yearlong partnership, the Minneapolis lender opted to buy the fintech outright, in a deal reportedly worth $200 million.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 17, 2021 -
LMI lender Oportun to buy digital bank Digit in $213M cash-equity deal
The deal will result in Digit and Oportun having access to a combined 1.4 million members, to whom both entities plan to cross-sell their products.
By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 16, 2021 -
Connecticut bank, fintech propose merger eyeing digital national lender
Stamford-based Patriot National Bank will pay $119 million to buy American Challenger Development Corp., a company that had been pursuing a de novo charter, in a deal announced Monday.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 15, 2021 -
BNP Paribas could offload Bank of the West in $15B deal
The French bank enlisted JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to gauge interest from bidders that could include TD, Bank of Montreal, KeyBank, Royal Bank of Canada and PNC, sources told Reuters.
By Dan Ennis • Nov. 15, 2021 -
BM Technologies to buy Seattle community bank to 'accelerate earnings power'
The $23 million deal, set to close in the second half of 2022, will allow BM Technologies to supplement fee-based income with net interest income, CEO Luvleen Sidhu said.
By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 15, 2021 -
Crypto creeps into the checkout line
Payments firms are betting on crypto's growth as an asset class to fuel crypto adoption at checkout.
By Suman Bhattacharyya • Nov. 10, 2021 -
How neobanks are cashing in on the Gen Z market
While parents' banking habits influence their children, researchers found, the difference in those habits is getting progressively wider.
By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 10, 2021 -
Dubai bank to pay $100M to NYDFS to settle Sudan sanction violations
The regulator alleges Mashreqbank instructed its employees to omit certain details from SWIFT messages with other banks that could have linked roughly $6.5 billion in payments to the African nation.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 10, 2021 -
First Horizon poaches its next CFO from Truist
First Horizon's CEO said Hope Dmuchowski's merger experience gives her a "unique understanding." Dmuchowski had worked at BB&T before the 2019 Truist merger. First Horizon last year merged with IberiaBank.
By Dan Ennis • Nov. 10, 2021 -
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Allegiance, CBTX eye merger to form $11B-asset bank
The all-stock deal between the two largest community banks in Houston is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022, the banks said Monday.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 9, 2021 -
Santander raises overdraft threshold to $100
The $89.5 billion-asset bank's new overdraft program, called Santander Safety Net, follows a recent trend of traditional institutions revamping or doing away with the fee altogether.
By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 9, 2021 -
Hiring tech talent a 'major priority' for Chase, CIO says
As competition heats up in the hiring space, some large banks are leveraging flexibility in the form of hybrid work schedules and larger salaries.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 8, 2021 -
Trade group calls for Congress to ease restrictions on hiring ex-offenders
The Bank Policy Institute wants Congress to clarify which people and jobs are covered under Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, which requires that ex-offenders receive FDIC approval to work at a bank.
By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 8, 2021 -
Citi puts a number to its South Korea wind-down charges
The bank expects to incur between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion through the end of 2022 — mostly related to employee buyouts — to extricate itself from retail operations in the country, it said Monday in an amended SEC filing.
By Dan Ennis • Nov. 8, 2021 -
Longtime CBA chief Richard Hunt to step down
Hunt, whose 13-year tenure was book-ended by the Dodd-Frank rollout and the COVID-19 pandemic, plans to leave the banking lobby next summer.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 4, 2021 -
Digital bank Jiko accelerates banking-as-a-service strategy
The Jiko app is still available for consumers to download, and the company plans to keep enhancing its features, but its main use will serve as a "showroom" for Jiko's technology, CEO Stephane Lintner said.
By Anna Hrushka • Nov. 4, 2021 -
New York extends CRA requirements to nonbank mortgage companies
The move comes months after the state's Department of Financial Services found borrowers of color and low- and moderate-income communities in Buffalo were underserved by anti-redlining legislation.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 2, 2021 -
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, TD reign in small-business satisfaction: J.D. Power
The nation's largest bank stood atop the West region for the ninth straight year — albeit in a tie with Bank of the West — the researcher found.
By Robin Bradley • Nov. 1, 2021 -
Not a charity: How neobanks First Boulevard, Greenwood tackle wealth bias
"This is a bank. We're here to empower Black America, but why are you assuming that that means we're helping poor people?" First Boulevard COO Asya Bradley said at Money20/20 in Las Vegas.
By Anna Hrushka • Oct. 29, 2021 -
TD rolls out executive shakeup, names new US CEO
Leo Salom, TD's head of wealth management and insurance, will succeed Greg Braca as U.S. CEO on Jan. 1. Braca will move to a newly created role of vice chair of the bank's U.S. arm.
By Dan Ennis • Oct. 29, 2021 -
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How Citi and Congress have turned the past week into 'Round 2'
A warning about "significant" charges over the bank's South Korea operations — and a contentious messaging war around bank data reporting — have given recent days a sense of deja vu.
By Dan Ennis • Oct. 28, 2021 -
Valley Bank unveils payments app for cannabis businesses
Valley Bank is partnering with a large processor to offer the service, which is similar to using a reloadable Starbucks wallet gift card, Chief Digital Product Officer Stuart Cook said.
By Anna Hrushka • Oct. 27, 2021