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Fed cites Washington state bank embroiled in Ponzi scheme allegations
UniBank and its parent company have been named in lawsuits alleging the bank facilitated loans that were used to repay earlier investors of water and oil-and-gas firms.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • Oct. 25, 2024 -
NYCB postpones profitability goal to 2026
The embattled bank recorded a $280 million loss for the third quarter and said it expected to post a loss for 2025, while whittling its profit forecast to 75 cents to 80 cents per share rather than $1.25.
By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 25, 2024 -
Trendline
Artificial intelligence
Banks are enthusiastic about AI’s promises. But can they get customers on board, and will regulators let the innovation happen?
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JPMorgan hires NOAA climate scientist to lead climate advisory practice
Sarah Kapnick rejoins the bank after a stint as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s presidentially appointed top scientist.
By Lamar Johnson • Oct. 22, 2024 -
Oklahoma bank fails, in-state peer buys insured deposits
Alleged "fraud" is believed to be behind the First National Bank of Lindsay's failure, the second U.S. bank collapse this year. The FDIC’s Deposit Insurance Fund will take a roughly $43 million hit.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • Oct. 21, 2024 -
OCC hits Florida bank over AML concerns
Maitland-based Axiom Bank agreed to revamp its BSA/AML program and look back at its suspicious activity reporting history.
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Oct. 18, 2024 -
Fairway to pay $9.9M in redlining settlement
The lender allegedly discouraged residents of Black-majority neighborhoods from applying for mortgages. Fairway said the complaint “appears to be intentionally inflammatory in nature.”
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Oct. 16, 2024 -
Citi ‘can walk and chew gum at the same time’: Fraser
CEO Jane Fraser cited the bank’s ability to cut expenses while addressing the data, risk and control flaws regulators have flagged.
By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 15, 2024 -
Dimon won’t rule out government role
The JPMorgan CEO largely dismissed the idea of serving in the next presidential administration, but he said, “I don’t make promises.” Wells Fargo’s CEO, meanwhile, said work on the bank’s AML issues is well underway.
By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 11, 2024 -
TD hit with asset cap, $3B in penalties over AML woes
The bank will pay $1.8 billion to the Justice Department, $1.3 billion to FinCEN, and growth will be restricted in the bank’s U.S. retail unit.
By Dan Ennis , Gabrielle Saulsbery • Oct. 10, 2024 -
US banks largely lag on implementing net-zero best practices
“What we see today in terms of their implementation and operationalizing of those [net-zero] commitments is far from sufficient,” the director of the Sierra Club’s Fossil-Free Finance Campaign said.
By Lamar Johnson • Oct. 8, 2024 -
Truist customer data exposed in third-party breach
The February breach involved personal information held by debt collector Financial Business and Consumer Solutions and did not impact Truist’s network, the bank said in a letter.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • Oct. 8, 2024 -
Tech costs, regulatory demands among community bankers’ top worries
A recent survey of community bankers also cited cost of funds as a top risk, amid the higher rate environment. “Right now, our motto is ‘Survive until 2025,’” a Pennsylvania community bank CEO said.
By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 8, 2024 -
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By Craig Brown, Clint Irvin, Jeff Ulmer, and Adam Wells • Oct. 7, 2024 -
Starling Bank slapped with $38M fine
The U.K.’s financial watchdog called Starling’s financial sanction screening controls “shockingly lax,” and said the challenger bank’s efforts to thwart financial crime failed to keep up with its quick growth.
By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 2, 2024 -
Fed lifts 2013 Citi enforcement action
The bank, which had been directed to address anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act deficiencies, is still under Fed and OCC orders related to data and internal controls.
By Caitlin Mullen • Oct. 2, 2024 -
Banks are excited about AI. Their customers aren’t so sure.
To address that, lenders need to be more transparent about their artificial intelligence use and educate customers on the benefits and safeguards involved, analysts said.
By Caitlin Mullen • Sept. 30, 2024 -
Macquarie investment unit settles SEC charges for $79.8M
The advisory firm will settle SEC charges for asset overvaluation and illegal cross trades conducted between January 2017 and April 2021 related to a discontinued fixed-income investment strategy.
By Rajashree Chakravarty • Sept. 20, 2024 -
NY’s Five Star Bank pivots away from BaaS
The bank cited regulators’ changing expectations. Banking-as-a-service accounts for 2% of Five Star’s deposits and less than 1% of its loans and two of its 12 clients have already begun offboarding, it said.
By Dan Ennis • Sept. 20, 2024 -
Evolve Bank ‘failed in its most basic duty,’ stole from customers: lawsuit
The allegations come from Yotta Technologies, a fintech that says its customers are currently locked out of more than $100 million in funds.
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Sept. 18, 2024 -
FDIC seeks tougher recordkeeping on fintech partners
The regulator also approved a policy update to consider small business and residential loan originations, in addition to deposits, when evaluating a merger’s competitive effects.
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Sept. 17, 2024 -
Lawmakers push for crackdown on fintech, ban on false claims
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen demanded tighter regulations on BaaS and fintech partnerships, saying they pose “a broader threat to the stability of our banking system and the economy.”
By Rajashree Chakravarty • Sept. 13, 2024 -
BMO’s $564M Ponzi verdict tossed by appeals court
A panel of judges at the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a bankruptcy court ruling that the bank aided and abetted the Ponzi scheme of former businessman Tom Petters.
By Gabrielle Saulsbery • Sept. 13, 2024 -
OCC hits Wells Fargo with AML enforcement action
The newest order for the bank introduces questions around whether it could affect the lifting of Wells' asset cap, or if other big banks might face AML orders.
By Caitlin Mullen • Sept. 12, 2024 -
Innovation may slow amid bank-fintech partnership scrutiny: analysts
Additional guardrails, however, are necessary as business connections grow more complex and as fintechs tackle more compliance responsibilities, a regulator said.
By Suman Bhattacharyya • Sept. 11, 2024 -
9 crucial reactions to the capital requirements preview
BofA and JPMorgan execs talk death, despair and a lack of specifics, while lawmakers and regulators appear to fall along party lines in the snowballing fight over the Basel endgame.
By Dan Ennis • Sept. 11, 2024