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    HSBC exec opens up on what drives real-time payment growth

    Corporations adopt faster digital payments based on their priorities and the rise of digital assets, an HSBC payments executive said.

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    Why rip and replace is dead and what comes next for banks

    Process Intelligence helps change the question from “how do banks access data?” to “how can they derive value from their data?”

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    First Citizens to shed SVB name

    The Raleigh, North Carolina-based lender is dropping the Silicon Valley Bank name in the fourth quarter. It’s also letting go of the CIT name that’s remained with a commercial unit since a 2022 acquisition.

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    PNC to cut 777 FirstBank jobs this summer

    The reductions at the acquired bank’s Colorado headquarters are designed to stem “overlap.” PNC, in a statement, touted the Denver market as a strong, strategic talent base for technology at the bank.

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    Key to buy UK investment banking advisory firm

    The deal to acquire Clearwater UK marks Key’s entrance into the western European market, the Cleveland-based lender said.

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    SMBC Americas launches cash management platform

    Cash management systems should be as frictionless to corporate treasurers as smartphone apps are to the masses, SMBC executive Craig Vaream said.

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    LendingClub to rebrand as Happen Bank

    CEO Scott Sanborn indicated the name change has the digital bank’s moniker catching up with what the company has become.

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    Mission Lane applies to become a bank

    The startup filed the first credit card bank charter application in roughly 20 years, an observer said. The charter would allow Mission Lane to affix home-state interest rates on loans nationwide.

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    SC lender drills down on Atlanta area with $100.8M deal

    United Community Banks’ purchase of Peach State Bank would give the acquisitive lender two extra branches and $788 million in assets from fast-growing Hall County.

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    Nicolet sells Denver locations to Sunwest

    The banks did not disclose the value of the deal, set to close in the third quarter.

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    Warsh says he would not be Trump’s ‘sock puppet’ on monetary policy

    Kevin Warsh, during testimony to a Senate committee, blamed Federal Reserve policymakers for stubborn, above-target inflation.

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    Banks’ CX matters when it comes to stock performance, study finds

    National banks identified as customer experience leaders delivered a cumulative total stock return 2.4 times greater than CX laggards over a nine-year period, Watermark Consulting research found.

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    JPMorgan to add 400 jobs in Charlotte by 2028

    The lender will condense its corporate presence in Charlotte by moving into a 145,000-square-foot space in the city’s SouthPark neighborhood in early 2028, which has room for new hires.

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    Fifth Third gets mission ready for Comerica conversion

    The Cincinnati-based regional is planning a series of dress rehearsals prior to shifting Comerica customers onto Fifth Third’s platforms, targeted for Labor Day, a bank executive said.

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    Wells Fargo CEO: Trump entitled to his own Fed views

    In an Economic Club interview Monday, Charlie Scharf also said there’s “clear consensus that it would be the wrong thing” to lower interest rates until there’s an end in sight to the Iran war.

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    Truist CEO defends bank’s growth plans

    Asked about M&A – including whether the bank would consider selling – CEO Bill Rogers said he didn’t “know how to be more clear, that that's just not a priority for us.”

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    Fed faults Georgia bank over government lending program

    After an exam revealed operational deficiencies with LaGrange, Georgia-based Community Bankshares, the company was ordered to bolster board oversight and senior management, and improve its capital position.

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    CFPB gets pushback over ‘artificial deadline’ on job cuts

    A workers union said it took the bureau more than a year to share its latest workforce plan, and questions why the agency seeks approval within a 45-day window.

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    Big banks seek to ease security worries as AI push accelerates

    “AI is our friend, OK?” said Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick during the bank’s earnings call as the industry grapples with its disruptive potential.

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    Lloyds taps chief data and AI officer

    Sameer Gupta will join the bank in June, the latest in a string of AI-focused appointments across the financial services industry.

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    Small Chicago lender hit over alleged deceptive ads to veterans

    The Federal Savings Bank told millions of consumers that they had “available funds” but did not specify that they had to get a new loan to access the funds, the OCC found.

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    Kraken to buy derivatives firm Bitnomial in $550M deal

    Bitnomial bills itself as the first crypto-native business in the U.S. to hold CFTC-issued licenses required to operate an exchange, a clearinghouse and a brokerage.

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    JPMorgan order that drew $348.2M penalty ends

    The OCC terminated a March 2024 enforcement action that found the bank failed to adequately monitor trading activity on at least 30 global venues. A companion order by the Fed appears to remain intact.

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    U.S. Bank eyes Amazon tie-up for small-biz boost

    The Minneapolis-based lender plans to pitch its banking services to the 700,000 small-business owners it will gain exposure to through a credit card partnership with Amazon, said CEO Gunjan Kedia.

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    OpenAI buys personal finance fintech Hiro

    This is OpenAI’s second fintech purchase, following its acquisition of personal finance app Roi in October.

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    Palo Alto Networks founder applies to invest in California bank

    It is unclear whether Nir Zuk wants to buy a majority of Liberty Bank, but observers say the lender could become a testing ground for the capabilities of artificial intelligence tools.