BankThink

Noelle Acheson highlights how last week's White House crypto document and the SEC's announced Project Crypto are not just about supporting digital assets — they're also about an overhaul of traditional finance.

As stablecoins and related products gain traction in the U.S., bankers are going to have to face the fact that their current anti-money-laundering controls simply aren't up to the task anymore.

Banks would face much higher assessments to bring the Deposit Insurance Fund's reserve ratio into compliance. Those costs would be reflected in higher fees and reduced availability of credit.

The current system of communicating the terms and conditions of banking services fails everyone. Banks spend enormous resources on compliance theater while customers remain uninformed about their actual rights and risks.

Rather than deleting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now is the time for the president and Congress to reform and reboot it into the agency that carries out its mission in an apolitical manner.

The new age of AI-enabled agents and increasing connectivity will not reward financial institutions focused on the last wave of innovation. Latin American institutions must embrace new technology.

U.S. banks should look to Sweden, where the identity verification measures put in place by banks also give users access to both government and private-sector platforms.

Noelle Acheson outlines the key blockchain innovations for payment programmability, and highlights their advantages and their risks.

Proposed cuts to the Treasury's Office of Financial Research would deprive the government of vital insight into the financial markets at a time when the sector is experiencing major disruptions.

The groundwork for a system of international payments that bypasses the sclerotic SWIFT network has been created. Now the banking industry needs to get behind the switch to blockchain-based payments.