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Deposit rates may have peaked; Commercial credit's deteriorating quality

05/20/19

Banks are starting to lower their rates to savers, due to easier Fed policy and lower expected profits; Commercial lenders see big rise in non-performing loans.

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‘We were willing to shock historical norms’: Otting on OCC’s makeover

05/19/19

The comptroller, now a year and a half on the job, discusses his attempts to revamp the supervision process for national banks and make the agency run more efficiently.

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First American adds to Florida operations with Continental acquisition

05/17/19

The Illinois bank is buying a bank formed in the 1970s to serve Cuban-Americans.

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Metro Bank shares post record gain as lender boosts capital

05/17/19

Vernon Hill's U.K. bank sold $479 million of new stock and issued fresh details about its turnaround efforts. Those included plans to cease its controversial practice of purchasing design and branding services from a business owned by Hill's wife.

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Trump calls Fannie, Freddie a 'pretty urgent problem'

05/17/19

His administration is looking at different alternatives to reform the housing finance system.

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In New York, growing support for a public bank

05/17/19

Undeterred by setbacks in other cities, a broad coalition of community groups is seizing on popular mistrust of traditional banks to press the case for a city-owned bank.

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25 attorneys general oppose CFPB's payday rule revamp

05/17/19

The AGs say the agency's plan to rescind ability-to-repay requirements for payday loans would undermine states' ability to enforce their own laws.

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Chase expands digital health care payments via InstaMed acquisition

05/17/19

JPMorgan Chase is buying InstaMed, a cloud-based health care payments platform that’s seen significant growth in recent years from consumer medical payments.

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A remittance fintech aims to be first of its kind to offer banking

05/17/19

Pangea says it is developing a digital account after customers complained that the bank relationship they had wasn't "for them."

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Consumer gripes grow, AI oversight, luring tech talent: Top stories of the week

05/17/19

As CFPB mulls privatizing database, consumer complaints are on the rise; an argument for continued human oversight of artificial intelligence; how some banks are luring talent from big tech; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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