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Crypto technology will play a major role in the central bank's real-time payments system. ... Read full article

The bank started buying more Treasurys and mortgage-backeds over a year ago, long before talk about rate cuts. What did it know that its rivals didn't? ... Read full article

The agencies handed banks a significant victory when they finalized revisions to the Dodd-Frank proprietary trading ban, but officials also plan to re-propose changes to the “covered funds” section of the rule. ... Read full article

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters and over a hundred other lawmakers want the agency to go forward with a mandatory underwriting requirement for payday loans. ... Read full article

Revamping the doctrine of disparate impact doctrine, as HUD proposes, would gut fair housing enforcement. ... Read full article

After years of keeping a low profile, banks plan to spend in next year’s elections; the digital currency has eyes on the unbanked. ... Read full article

Readers react to regulators revamping the Volcker Rule and the U.S. Postal Service getting into banking, criticize HUD's plan to make it harder for consumers to allege discrimination and more. ... Read full article

An inspector general’s findings suggest that the Texas bank could face more consequences over how it handled fraud cases last year tied to the Direct Express program. ... Read full article

A J.D. Power official says supplemental benefits — many centered on travel cards — need to be pared down. His comments followed the company’s release of survey data that showed these hard-to-understand benefits were a drag on customer satisfaction. ... Read full article

While bank stocks flounder, their bonds are seen as a haven against a possible recession; the senator asks bank about overdraft fees on closed accounts. ... Read full article

The German bank responds to an op-ed that criticized its restructuring. ... Read full article

The Trump administration’s “public charge” rule would add credit reports to factors that could be used to deny legal residency, but critics say credit scoring was never intended for that purpose. ... Read full article

Sheila Bair, who holds board seats at several other organizations, will sit on Fannie's compensation, corporate governance and risk policy committees. ... Read full article

Capacity, formerly Jane.ai, originally designed its chatbot to answer consumers' questions, but when employees started using it, that gave the startup an idea for a new business line. ... Read full article

Santander Bank's U.S. unit will be eliminating 80 mortgage-related positions as it withdraws from the third-party origination sales channel and refocuses on producing home loans through its branch network. ... Read full article

After a news report said the bank kept alive accounts customers thought they had closed, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told acting CEO Allen Parker in a letter that Wells is "still fundamentally broken." ... Read full article

Bank of America’s P2P transaction volume via Zelle is surging, with millennials driving the bulk of its usage. ... Read full article

The FDIC and the OCC relax the rule restricting proprietary trading; home buyers with bad credit, lots of debt, or employment issues are again getting loans. ... Read full article