Small businesses grow less hopeful for future: Fed study
Key measurements of small businesses’ health remained stable in 2025, according to a new study by the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks. But those firms’ optimism about the future reached its lowest point since 2020.
Mastercard, Visa make deals to jolt stablecoins
In separate arrangements, Mastercard is working with SoFi and Visa is working with Bridge to build scale in anticipation of greater demand for the digital asset.
Sen. Scott: Bank legislative package coming ‘shortly’
Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott, R-S.C., told reporters that community banking didn’t fit into the housing package moving forward in the upper chamber, but that he’s in discussions with House leaders and the White House to move a separate financial services package.
How Clearview FCU’s CIO gets employees to use and trust AI
“AI may not take your job, but somebody who knows AI will,” says Raymond George, CIO of Clearview Federal Credit Union.
Housing bill moves forward with institutional housing ban
Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released new legislative language Monday night that includes a ban on institutional investors’ purchase of single family homes and a temporary ban on the Federal Reserve issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency.
Fed’s Bowman sets her sights on discount window reform
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said in a speech Tuesday that the central bank is considering a “fundamental reform” of the discount window, including streamlining rules and processes across the Fed system.
What if Jack Dorsey’s right about AI and jobs?
The Block CEO said companies will need fundamentally fewer workers in the AI age. The question is, how many fewer?
Regulators need to prepare for a more diverse monetary ecosystem
If the next phase of digital money policy is to succeed, it must grapple with a simple truth: People do not experience money through legal categories. They experience it through use. That’s a fact that supervision must account for.
Banks face ‘heavy lift’ in Trump’s potential citizenship EO
Experts say that compliance with a potential executive order being considered by the White House that would require banks to collect citizenship information would be costly, especially for community banks.
Amy Brady, KeyCorp’s longtime CIO, resigns from the bank
Brady, Key’s chief information officer since 2012, resigned Monday due to “personal health considerations,” the Cleveland-based bank said in a securities filing. Chief Financial Officer Clark Khayat will assume her duties.