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Once again, congressional inaction on reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program is prompting concerns about what a lapse in coverage could mean for loan closings. ... Read full article

After the Cincinnati bank started a personal assistant service for new mothers, it learned new parents needed help with budgeting, and that motivated it to team up with a Goldman Sachs firm to establish a financial wellness program for all its employees. ... Read full article

Echoing the set of restrictive rules known as GDPR enacted earlier this year by the European Union, the state legislation — which does not take effect until 2020 — will almost certainly be the subject of intense lobbying from business giants that vacuum up ... Read full article

Leandra English said she plans to leave the agency and drop a lawsuit that sought to install her as director of the consumer agency; the stock exchange’s CTO is joining the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini firm. ... Read full article

A new court filing suggests that Stephen Calk was named to a 13-member economic advisory team in 2016 in exchange for approving a $9.5 million loan to former campaign manager Paul Manafort. ... Read full article

The Fed, the FDIC and the OCC said Friday that they have begun implementing changes for regional banks under the new regulatory relief law passed in May. ... Read full article

Leandra English, who sued President Trump and Mick Mulvaney last year claiming to be the rightful director of the CFPB, said Friday that she plans to resign and drop the litigation. ... Read full article

One firm's inability to access bank data shows how fragile fintechs can be; payments processor Square quietly withdraws bank application; turnover of chief risk officers is on the rise; and more from this week's most-read stories. ... Read full article

Online lenders and other firms await news from OCC and Treasury on the future of their supervision, even as they absorb the news that Square had to temporarily pull its industry loan company application. ... Read full article

Banks could shed as much as 20 million square feet of office space over the next five years as they shift many functions to high-tech operations centers in markets with cheaper rents. ... Read full article

JPMorgan Chase denied a report in the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche that it's interested in acquiring a stake in Deutsche Bank, after the lender's share price slumped. ... Read full article

The Swiss bank allegedly hired Chinese officials’ friends and relatives to win business; JPM asked “several dozen” employees to consider moving from London. ... Read full article

Jennifer Jackson will succeed Shane Holdaway as head of the Toronto-based unit, which has 1,200 employees. ... Read full article

Readers weigh in on inequality in financial services, opine on falling bank reputations, chime in on the evolving role of the chief risk officer and more. ... Read full article

The agency will advise lenders on how to obtain partial exemptions from Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requirements that Congress adopted this spring. ... Read full article

The payments processor has pulled its submission to the FDIC to become a depository bank but says it plans to make a second attempt soon. ... Read full article

There are signs that commercial loan demand finally picked up in the second quarter, but banks still face some obstacles. ... Read full article

JPMorgan Chase, which employs about 10,000 people in London, has asked "several dozen" employees to relocate across the European Union before the U.K. formally leaves the bloc in March next year. ... Read full article