The US is losing the race to develop an alternative payments system
Countries around the world have lots of incentives to build an alternative to the U.S.-centric global payments system using central bank digital currencies. The U.S. must get in the game or see its economic might begin to wane.
Raising capital is painful. Here’s why more banks will likely do it.
Several banks that boosted their capital bases this year saw their stock prices rise, a new analysis finds. The positive reception may drive more such activity.
‘Ideas never die’: M&T’s approach to fintech innovation
The Buffalo bank recently shelved in-house startup GrowGrade and folded another, Nota, back into the mothership.
Turnaround artist Parsons ‘left everything better than he found it’
Richard “Dick” Parsons, the former Citigroup chairman who died Thursday, is credited with helping the New York megabank survive the financial crisis. Earlier in his career, he led Dime Savings Bank out of the savings-and-loan crisis.
FDIC, Vanguard reach agreement over large stakes in U.S. banks
A passivity agreement with the FDIC means that when the asset management giant Vanguard owns more than 10% of an FDIC-overseen bank, it can’t seek certain levels of control over the bank’s behavior.
HomeStreet agrees to sell nearly $1 billion in multifamily loans
The Seattle-based company’s deal with Bank of America comes five weeks after the termination of its planned sale to FirstSun Capital Bancorp in Denver.
Statement by Director Jonathan McKernan on Monitoring the Passivity of Index Fund Complexes: Vanguard’s New Passivity Agreement
STATEMENT | DECEMBER 27, 2024 Statement by Director Jonathan McKernan on Monitoring the Passivity of Index Fund Complexes: Vanguard’s New Passivity Agreement The passivity agreement entered into by Vanguard today should enable the FDIC to address, with respect to Vanguard, the concerns I raised in January and several times since about gaps in the FDIC’s monitoring of the purported […]
Regal brings on-chain payments to the movies
In a collaboration with Coinbase and Flexa, Regal theaters now accept on-chain U.S. digital currency payments for movie tickets and concessions; the Bank of Nova Scotia has completed its second investment in KeyCorp; Fiserv entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canadian-based payments fintech Payfare; and more in this week’s banking news roundup.
CBW Bank to contest $20 million FDIC fine for AML lapses
The tiny community bank handled hundreds of millions of bulk cash shipments from Mexico without red-flagging any of them, the agency said. The bank has filed a motion to dismiss.
Top enforcement actions against banks in 2024
Banking regulators hit companies with penalties for poor interest-rate risk, third-party management, anti-money-laundering controls and consumer protection, among other violations.