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While stablecoins aren't widely used for merchant payments, blockchain tech firms such as BVNK and Polygon Labs are seeking opportunities to add speed to slow-moving international transfers.
February 2
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William Lacy Clay Jr. is a senior policy advisor at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He represented Missouri's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2021. He served as the ranking member on the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit in the 115th Congress.
February 2
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In keeping with its policy of outsourcing functions outside its core commercial and retail banking competency, Signature Bank near Chicago teamed with a larger trust company to fill a longstanding gap in its product set.
February 2
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Instead of fighting to keep the banking industry unchanged, perhaps it's time for banks to accept that change is inevitable and focus on adapting to remain competitive.
February 2
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As tokenization increasingly brings instant settlement to transactions, the liquidity buffer that batch settlement has provided for decades is going to shrink and then disappear. Banks will need to rethink liquidity management.
February 2
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The Arkansas-based company pivoted to organic growth a few years ago, after making 14 bank acquisitions in less than a decade.
February 2
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The combination of the banks is the latest in a trend of deals closing on speedier timelines, and signals the industry's hunt for scale.
February 2
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When the Swiss banking giant bought rival Credit Suisse in 2023, it inherited an investigation over money the Nazis looted from European Jews. The issue now seems to be coming to a head in Washington.
February 2
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The Chicago-based, $261 million-asset Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust was placed in receivership and its assets sold to Detroit-based First Independence Bank, costing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Deposit Insurance Fund an estimated $19.7 million.
January 30
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