The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is preparing to request information from credit-card issuers about their late fees. The renewed interest in late fees is a surprise, given the agency last year sided with the banking industry to kill a Biden-era rule that would have dropped the charges from $32 to $8.
Banks are freezing hiring in some areas as they deploy more artificial intelligence.
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The Most Innovative People in Finance honoree discusses why consumers and businesses only care that their payments get to the right place at the right time, and how banks can fix this problem.
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Seventeen banks, including BNY, Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo, will make tokenized cross-border payments as the messaging network looks to counter threats from digital asset fintechs.
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Some of the country's largest banks are reportedly considering buying a Fiserv-owned debit card network as a workaround to interchange caps instituted by the Durbin Amendment. It's an idea that looks good on paper, but could be harder to actually implement.
A $160 million deal to merge Hometown Financial Group subsidiaries and Primary Bank will lead to consolidation under a single brand name of TruNorth.
Polymarket's process for divining "the truth," the heart of its entire operating model, is itself open to manipulation, a new lawsuit alleges.
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In the year of the country's 250th anniversary celebrations, it's worth looking back at the long road the U.S. dollar took to global dominance, and the lessons we can learn from it.
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To thrive in the new age of real-time payments, banks must invest in a continuous operating model that integrates payments, treasury and working capital into a seamless ecosystem.
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A new consumer wellness trend, peptide treatments, is rapidly gaining popularity, and is inevitably going to cause problems in payments as banks and payment processors try to assess which providers are legitimate.
There's been an onslaught of nonbank financial technology company charter applications and approvals already this year.
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The 33 companies that made it to this year's Best Fintechs to Work For list are actively preserving remote work options and non-salary benefit packages.
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The company says its mission-driven culture, family-supporting benefits and emphasis on flexibility are key factors.
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An analysis of American Banker's 2026 Best Fintechs to Work For finds that workers appreciate flexibility, as well as "meaningful" work.
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At face-value, HSAs are for short-term medical expenses, but advisors suggest paying out of pocket to maximize HSA funds for investing and tax-free growth.
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Clients aren't just curious about estate planning, they're insisting that their advisors provide it.
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The Ensemble Practice's annual growth and profitability report reveals a "scissors shape" between the two, based on a survey of more than 170 firms.
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However, for the second quarter, increased home purchase mortgage activity contributed to an industry-wide 11% increase in agency securitizations, BTIG said.
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OceanFirst Financial worked with an asset manager to apply the structure to a $1.5 billion portfolio of residential mortgages.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed the labor force continued to expand but at a weaker rate than in recent months. The development weakens the case for a near-term rate hike.
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Seventeen banks, including BNY, Citi, HSBC, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo, will make tokenized cross-border payments as the messaging network looks to counter threats from digital asset fintechs.
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The nation's largest bank's fund for stablecoin issuers seeking GENIUS Act–compliant yield vehicles already has $700 million in assets.
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The card network embedding technology that enables mobile devices to accept payments without additional hardware.
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Retaining Bartholomew & Company comes as a big victory in LPL's bid to hold on to AUM and advisors from its acquisition last year of Commonwealth Financial Network.
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With Robinhood Chain now live, the company is pushing into tokenized equities, stablecoin lending and international markets.
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