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The Office of Management and Budget issued reduction in force notices to Treasury staff working in the Community Development Financial Institution office Friday, saying that the layoffs are necessary to "implement the abolishment" of the fund.
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Former City National CEO Kelly Coffey has a new venture in wealth management; Erin Siegfried is Northwest Bancshares' new chief legal counsel and corporate secretary; Flagstar Bank secures OCC approval to merge its holding company into the bank; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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Artificial intelligence offers debt collection companies the opportunity to vastly improve margins while achieving higher levels of regulatory compliance and maximizing scalability.
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The regional bank has launched a digital student banking center that's part of a broader strategy to focus on relationship-building.
October 10 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced job openings for attorney-advisors to represent the agency in defensive and appellate litigation.
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An updated deposit insurance reform bill from Sens. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., would raise deposit insurance for business accounts to $10 million, exclude the largest banks from coverage and insulate community banks from footing the bill.
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Younger borrowers are increasingly moving money away from financial institutions, but banks could recapture Gen Z capital by helping them build credit.
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Habner, Head of U.S. Branded Cards and Lending at Citi, sits down with American Banker Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger to discuss the credit card market.
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Bank of America's O'Neill talks about innovation in banking and what's next for retail customers.
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A former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. argues that community banking in the U.S. is being slowly strangled by regulations that place heavier burdens on small banks than on giant ones.
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