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OCC's innovation pilot gets little love from banks

07/30/19

Financial institutions welcome regulatory feedback on their fintech offerings, but the industry wants the agency to waive enforcement for approved products.

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Investar to enter Alabama with Bank of York deal

07/30/19

The Louisiana company will pay $15 million in cash for Bank of York.

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Wellness app inspires KeyBank effort to make branches more relevant

07/30/19

Building off the popularity of its personal financial management tool, HelloWallet, the Cleveland bank is now offering in-person financial checkups as a way to deepen customer relationships.

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The Bancorp's risky CRE pivot

07/30/19

The Delaware company, best known for issuing prepaid cards, has ramped up commercial real estate securitizations. The shift promises to deliver big fees, but it could also cause headaches if defaults spike.

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GOP senators pressure banking agencies for more reg relief

07/30/19

Among other things, the letter asked the regulators to ease requirements for a new community bank leverage ratio and analyze the impact of the pending CECL accounting change.

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Capital One’s data breach was bad. It could’ve been worse

07/30/19

Though involving an eye-popping 106 million credit card applicants' information, Capital One's breach was also unusual in a number of ways, including that it was quickly caught through a responsible disclosure program run by the bank.

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Truist out to prove it can best the megabanks in tech

07/30/19

To combat the notion that regional banks’ tech offerings are inferior, the combined BB&T-SunTrust will have to go “toe-to-toe” with big banks, BB&T chief Kelly King said ahead of shareholder approval of the deal Tuesday.

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Crypto holds public promise and potential for danger: Senators

07/30/19

Two weeks after lawmakers grilled a Facebook exec over Libra, they acknowledged benefits from digital currency technology while warning of the risks.

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Make banks use T-bills as collateral for excess reserves

07/30/19

The approach could work as long as the Fed were to add certain thresholds.

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Capital One hacked; job cuts and a reorg on tap for Citi

07/30/19

In what's being called "one of the largest-ever data breaches of a large bank," Capital One said a Seattle hacker gained access to the personal information of more than 100 million customers; Citigroup plans to cut hundreds of jobs in its global markets division and combine its equity trading and prime brokerage units.

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