banking

Banking is an industry that handles cash, credit, and other financial transactions. Banks provide a safe place to store extra cash and credit. One key step towards financial independence is having a solid banking account.

Fiserv Appoints Mastercard Senior Strategic Advisor Raj Seshadri to Board
Fiserv Appoints Mastercard Senior Strategic Advisor Raj Seshadri to Board
October 23, 2026  |  Personnel

Fiserv has announced that Raj Seshadri, senior strategic advisor to the CEO of Mastercard, will join Fiserv’s board of directors and enhance its collective expertise around uniting commerce...

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Customers Bank Uses AI to Close Commercial Loans in 7 Days
Customers Bank Uses AI to Close Commercial Loans in 7 Days
October 23, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Commercial loans can take weeks to close, and Pennsylvania-based Customers Bank put its typical wait at 30 to 60 days. A pilot of its artificial...

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Polygon Secures US Money Transmitter Licenses
Polygon Secures US Money Transmitter Licenses
October 23, 2026  |  Blockchain

Polygon has completed its acquisition of Coinme, making Polygon Open Money Stack a U.S.-regulated payments platform, the company said in an Oct. 14 blog post. “This is a huge step...

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Sezzle Pursues National Bank Charter
Sezzle Pursues National Bank Charter
October 23, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

FinTech company Sezzle has begun the formal charter application process to establish a national bank that would offer a broad range of banking products and services,...

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HSBC Launches Hong Kong Dollar Stablecoin for Everyday Payments
HSBC Launches Hong Kong Dollar Stablecoin for Everyday Payments
October 23, 2026  |  Blockchain

HSBC has launched its first stablecoin, HSBC RedCoin (RCHKD), in Hong Kong, saying in a Friday (Oct. 23) press release that it is built for everyday payments and transactions....

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Banks Add AI Agents, Keep Their 40-Year-Old Cores
Banks Add AI Agents, Keep Their 40-Year-Old Cores
October 22, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Banks keep their core systems because replacing them is costly and disruptive. Keeping them carries its own price. Employees work across fragmented applications, repeat manual...

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Banks Crack Down on Unauthorized AI Agents Operating Inside Customer Accounts
Banks Crack Down on Unauthorized AI Agents Operating Inside Customer Accounts
October 22, 2026  |  Banking

Major U.S. banks are detecting and deleting unauthorized third-party artificial intelligence agents that are taking actions inside customer accounts, Reuters reported Thursday (Oct. 22), citing a...

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TerraPay Adds Payee Verification to J.P. Morgan’s Liink Network
TerraPay Adds Payee Verification to J.P. Morgan’s Liink Network
October 22, 2026  |  Banking

TerraPay announced it has integrated its payee verification service with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan’s Liink network, expanding financial institutions’ ability to check bank account and...

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OCC Leaves Stablecoin Rewards Door Open as Banks Defend Deposits
OCC Leaves Stablecoin Rewards Door Open as Banks Defend Deposits
October 22, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

The week in digital assets was dominated by regulation. The net-net of a wild week? Banks face renewed competition for customers’ cash after federal regulators...

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