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Community banks and credit unions have pooled their resources and ideas to develop a bilingual challenger bank, banking-as-a-service playbook, cheaper alternative to Zelle and other innovations.

Crypto pain deepens, credit union merger is official and more in banking news this week.

Ant Group's Alipay teams up to expand mobile wallet acceptance, CaixaBank forms a cybersecurity consortium, Santander plans buy now/pay later for businesses, and more.

Sustainability and climate change continue to impact the business decisions of banks and fintechs looking to advance their green banking credentials.

Chatting up Square, Afterpay's Mexico vamoose and more in banking news this week.

The impact of a weakening economy on quarterly performance will become clearer by the second week of January as banks begin to report fourth-quarter earnings.

The top five have over five billion dollars in total loans and leases as of June 30, 2022.

A new app for people with a criminal past and a challenger bank "of immigrants for immigrants" are among the neobanks forging their own path in the banking world.

Swift adds a top exec from Mastercard, Visa expands mobile pay in Oman, Turkey tests a CBDC; and other global financial services news.

The sleepy Federal Home Loan Bank System is under intense scrutiny as critics push for more oversight and increased affordable housing while supporters say the system works well for member banks.

Addressing concerns ranging from financial inclusion to the impact of China's digital yuan, central banks are running tests to determine how central bank digital currency transactions will work both domestically and internationally.

An declared end to screen scraping, a major hack of a cryptocurrency exchange and banks' plans for bitcoin trading led coverage last year.

At the start of 2022, Biden administration officials were cautious about how to regulate the commingling of cryptocurrencies and traditional finance. By the end of the year, agencies had taken a tougher stance, and the downfall of FTX portended more of the same in 2023.

Return to office vs. remote work, the Great Resignation, rising wages in the face of inflation, workers trying to unionize, the ongoing fight for diversity in hiring and promotions: the year in human resources.

With prodding from their regulators, U.S. banks made some progress on assessing climate risk, but did not move as quickly as activists wanted. At the same time, new federal support for clean energy provided opportunities for lenders.

In this month's roundup of American Banker's favorite stories: a deep-dive into how 2022 accelerated the decline of overdraft fees, Zelle's plan for addressing fraudulent transactions, the National Credit Union Administration opens the doors for fintech and credit union partnerships for lending and more.

Every issue of the magazine provides great features, opinion pieces and more about the issues keeping industry leaders up at night. Here is a look at some of the most exemplary coverage from the past 12 months.

The conflict caused inflationary price swings and an exodus of Western businesses from Russia, while also making a recession more likely in 2023.

Women chief financial officers at banks and financial institutions have a huge job. They are responsible for tracking cash flow, financial planning, analyzing the company's financial strengths and weaknesses and proposing strategic directions.

Digital banking apps such as Daylight, Greenlight and Re:start are helping their customers do more than stash paychecks and save for the future.