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Banco Santander said rising costs linked to inflation could leave it short of its efficiency goal for the year while worsening credit quality trends in Brazil were also in focus, even as the lender's earnings beat analysts' expectations.

The Indiana company reported strong growth in profits and loan income, and it hopes its addition of more than two dozen wealth management and commercial banking specialists will help beef up what one analyst called "softer than expected" noninterest income.

HSBC Holdings named Georges Elhedery as its new chief financial officer, setting up the bank's former markets boss as a potential front-runner to eventually replace CEO Noel Quinn.

Nickels, which works with the credit union service organization Reseda Group, is using its $4 million seed funding to give financial institutions more visibility into consumers' debts.

Congress will eventually turn its attention to the fact that taxpayers are subsidizing payments to large financial institutions.

Fidelity Investments is hiring an additional 100 people for its digital assets unit, stepping up an expansion that started in May and taking advantage of turmoil among crypto firms to lure talent. 

Credit bureaus should know better than to include "impossible" data, such as someone defaulting on a loan before they were born, says Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra.

U.S. central bankers said the next phase in their campaign to curb inflation will be to debate how high to raise interest rates and when to slow the pace of increases.

U.S. Bank's new M&A closing date, and new rewards card, and more in banking news this week.

Paydowns at the Arkansas bank, which specializes in commercial real estate lending, fell by $1 billion from the prior quarter as refinancing activity slowed amid soaring interest rates. The result was stronger loan growth.