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    The future of financial services: Continuous disruption, transformation and reinvention

    VMware’s Financial Services Industry Solutions lead explores disruptions and innovations in banking.

    Feb. 13, 2023
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    Kraken ends its crypto staking program, will pay SEC $30M

    SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce dissented on the agency's enforcement, calling it something a “paternalistic and lazy regulator” would do.

    By Feb. 10, 2023
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    Fraud and AML in banking

    A top-10 bank’s AML practices may have tanked the year’s biggest merger. The episode underscores the importance of a solid strategy to fight fraud and money laundering.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Former NYSE CIO launches an app to make you feel good about your finances

    He called Fierce “kind of like the Ted Lasso of finance.”

    By Feb. 8, 2023
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    Bank mobile app use reaches 87%: Chase survey

    Card replacement and peer-to-peer payment access rank among features with the greatest uptick in use, the bank’s research found.

    By Feb. 6, 2023
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    Silvergate’s FTX ties probed by DOJ fraud unit: report

    The investigation is looking into the bank’s hosting of accounts linked to former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Silvergate has not been accused of wrongdoing, sources told Bloomberg.

    By Feb. 3, 2023
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    Small banks, fintechs ask CFPB for more time to phase out screen scraping

    A CFPB proposal aims to eliminate screen scraping by requiring banks to establish APIs, standardized software widely regarded as a more secure way to connect consumers’ accounts to financial apps.

    By Feb. 1, 2023
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    Lawmakers press Silvergate harder, say due diligence failed ‘miserably’

    Silvergate CEO Alan Lane’s response to a December letter regarding the bank's FTX ties was “evasive and incomplete,” a bipartisan group of U.S. senators wrote Monday.

    By Feb. 1, 2023
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    JPMorgan plans to launch digital bank in Germany by 2025: report

    The bank has been hiring in Berlin to support the effort and plans to make the city its base of EU consumer operations, Bloomberg reported.

    By Feb. 1, 2023
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    BM Technologies to cut 25% of staff

    BM Technologies’ effort to reduce expenses follows the dissolution of the fintech’s planned acquisition of First Sound Bank, a $23 million deal the two parties called off in December.

    By Jan. 31, 2023
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    Crypto bank Anchorage Digital names execs to compliance, BSA posts

    The eight-move revamp of C-suite and other leading posts comes nine months after the OCC ordered the digital bank to fix BSA and anti-money laundering shortcomings.

    By Jan. 31, 2023
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    Varo slows burn rate, shifts marketing strategy

    The bank cut its marketing budget and shifted its focus from maximizing user numbers to growing the segment that uses Varo as its primary bank.

    By Jan. 31, 2023
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    Crypto firm Gemini picks new finance chief

    Tyler Skelton joins Gemini from small-business payment service provider Till Payments. He also held finance roles at crypto insurance marketplace Nayms and financial services provider Bakkt.

    By Grace Noto • Jan. 30, 2023
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    Marqeta names new CEO, makes $275M deal

    The company is elevating its chief product officer and acquiring cloud-native credit card program management platform Power Finance.

    By Jan. 30, 2023
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    Crypto firm Dinara takes proactive stance on compliance, general counsel says

    The company's work to meet Banking Secrecy Act standards serves as a key differentiator in the industry amid FTX's bankruptcy, Yanire Martes says.

    By Lyle Moran • Jan. 27, 2023
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    The crypto world is sending mixed signals

    Nearly 2,000 crypto workers have been laid off in 2023, but the value of Bitcoin climbed enough in January for Goldman Sachs to take note.

    By Jan. 27, 2023
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    Morgan Stanley claws back bankers’ pay over WhatsApp scandal

    The bank is considering the number of messages sent, the banker’s seniority and whether they received prior warnings in levying penalties ranging from a few thousand dollars to more than $1 million, the Financial Times reported.

    By Jan. 26, 2023
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    Former BofA CEO-backed fintech launches to match SMBs with lenders

    “What we want to do is to put people that want to lend money together with people who need money. It's not complicated,” said ex-Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl Jr., a founding investor in Foro.

    By Jan. 25, 2023
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    Feds seize $150M from Farmington, Silvergate amid FTX probe

    Each of the affected banks has made a marked shift this year: Farmington is exiting the crypto space, and Silvergate has cut 40% of its staff, citing current “economic realities.”

    By Jan. 25, 2023
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    Inside Jenius Bank’s plan to tap the US consumer market

    Japanese giant Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. has invested $150 million in the digital bank, which aims to roll out personal loans, savings and checking accounts within the next 12 to 18 months.

    By Jan. 24, 2023
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    Gemini cutting another 10% of staff: report

    The crypto exchange has been affected by Genesis' bankruptcy and the FTX contagion.

    By Jan. 23, 2023
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    Big banks to launch digital wallet operated by Zelle parent: report

    The wallet, which is expected to launch in the second half of the year, aims to compete with PayPal and Apple, sources told The Wall Street Journal. But serious competition may take a while, an analyst said.

    By Jan. 23, 2023
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    Capital One cuts 1,100 tech jobs

    The cuts affect employees in the bank’s “agile” job family. Responsibilities associated with the eliminated positions will be folded into existing engineering and product manager roles, Capital One said.

    By Jan. 20, 2023
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    Crypto lender Nexo to pay $45M in SEC settlement

    Nexo said last month it would cease U.S. operations after hitting a “dead end” in talks with regulators. One of company’s founders Thursday said he is “confident that a clearer regulatory landscape will emerge soon.”

    By Jan. 20, 2023
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    Genesis prepping to file bankruptcy: report

    If the lending arm of Digital Currency Group is unable to come to an agreement with creditor groups, it is poised to become the latest in a series of crypto sector bankruptcies, Bloomberg reported.

    By Jan. 19, 2023
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    Fintech wreckage spells opportunity for bargain-hunting banks

    Following a challenging year for the fintech sector, enterprising banks may be able to acquire startups whose previous valuations put them out of reach in prior years, said Klaros Group’s Jonah Crane.

    By Jan. 18, 2023