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Congress Considers Overhaul of Federal Financial Privacy Law, but There’s a Catch

Congress Considers Overhaul of Federal Financial Privacy Law, but There’s a Catch
Congress Considers Overhaul of Federal Financial Privacy Law, but There’s a Catch
August 18, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

Congress is considering a major rewrite of federal financial privacy law that could offer banks and other financial companies a consequential bargain: substantially stronger consumer...

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Banks Built for Paychecks Meet the Cash Flow Generation
Banks Built for Paychecks Meet the Cash Flow Generation
August 17, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

For much of the past century, banking products evolved around the regular paycheck. But findings in the August 2026 edition of The Millennial Playbook, a...

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Italy’s Cheese Bank Finds Climate Risk Has a Rind
Italy’s Cheese Bank Finds Climate Risk Has a Rind
August 15, 2026  |  Banking

On Wall Street, “cheese” is slang for money. In Italy, they decided the metaphor needed collateral. Deep inside climate-controlled warehouses in Emilia-Romagna, hundreds of thousands...

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Goldman Sachs Mobilizes Investors for Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Push
Goldman Sachs Mobilizes Investors for Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Push
August 14, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs is talking with potential investors about participating in Nvidia’s $500 billion artificial intelligence financing initiative that was announced Monday (Aug. 10), Reuters reported...

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Tokenization Builds Banks New Empires Instead of Killing Them
Tokenization Builds Banks New Empires Instead of Killing Them
August 12, 2026  |  Blockchain

Tokenization is a technology aimed at disintermediation. The act of migrating assets onto a blockchain, not the tokenization that underpins card security. Tokenizing a real-world...

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Your Bank’s AI Agent May Need a Permission Slip
Your Bank’s AI Agent May Need a Permission Slip
August 12, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Financial regulators and banks have spent years catching artificial intelligence agent mistakes after the fact, tracing errors and assigning blame once the money has already...

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M&T Bank Appoints Fannie Mae Veteran Kalyana Bedhu as AI Engineering Head
M&T Bank Appoints Fannie Mae Veteran Kalyana Bedhu as AI Engineering Head
August 12, 2026  |  Personnel

Buffalo, New York-headquartered M&T Bank has appointed Fannie Mae veteran Kalyana Bedhu as the bank’s new head of artificial intelligence (AI) engineering, M&T Bank Chief Information Officer Linda Tai said in...

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AI Recordkeeping Raises Compliance Questions for Financial Services Firms
AI Recordkeeping Raises Compliance Questions for Financial Services Firms
August 12, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Financial services firms are moving rapidly to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in compliance, communications and other business functions, but their use of the technology is...

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