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The newly launched digital credit union, CineFi, aims to serve creative professionals in the Atlanta area as well as First Entertainment's existing member base in Los Angeles.
January 20 -
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday morning that banks should focus on the sweeping deregulation the administration has enacted as the industry pushes back on President Trump's proposed 10% credit card interest rate cap.
January 20 -
The company's recently released 2026 trends report is about "moving and changing the narrative from being Eeyores to being Tiggers," Abbott said in the latest American Banker podcast.
January 20 -
Billy Abrams is in Correspondent Business Development at AD Mortgage and is the CEO of IF Securities. Abrams has experience in commodity futures and options brokerage and trading, as well as in institutional fixed-income sales and trading. His product experience includes repo, treasury, agency, corporate, MBS and derivatives. Prior to joining AD Mortgage, for more than a decade, he worked exclusively with mortgage originators, helping them to hedge with TBAs.
January 20 -
Efforts to exclude crypto firms from the provision of a number of different core financial services are doomed to fail. The only correct response is to provide the prudential regulation necessary to assure safe and sound operation.
January 20
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Cryptocurrency has traditionally been an investment product more than a way to make purchases, but fintechs are betting there's a future for digital assets at the point of sale.
January 20 -
Howard Green's new book Gimme a Crisis offers a deep dive into the former Scotiabank CEO's career, from bringing the NBA to Toronto to navigating 2008.
January 20 -
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Kip Meadows is the founder and CEO of Nottingham, which provides consulting and administration for ETFs, mutual funds and exempt investment pools.
January 19 -
A significant majority of Americans are now living lives of permanent financial stress, and debt delinquency is on the rise. For bankers, that's a recipe for problems with profitability, and perhaps with safety and soundness.
January 19
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