banking

CFPB’s Overdraft Rule May Move Banks to Cut Services and a ‘Credit Lifeline’ for Consumers
CFPB’s Overdraft Rule May Move Banks to Cut Services and a ‘Credit Lifeline’ for Consumers
December 12, 2024  |  Consumer Finance

The new (and reportedly final) rule on overdraft fees may have consumer groups — and consumers — cheering. But the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB)...

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Financial Landscape Unprepared for Increasing FinTech Influence, Oversight Group Says
Financial Landscape Unprepared for Increasing FinTech Influence, Oversight Group Says
December 11, 2024  |  Legal & Regulation

Innovation within the financial services and payments space tends to center around two poles: FinTechs, and cryptocurrency. In its newly released 2024 annual report, the...

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Google Cloud and Swift Partner on AI Model Training
Google Cloud and Swift Partner on AI Model Training
December 10, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

Google Cloud and Swift are working together to develop a secure, privacy-preserving solution for financial institutions that use federated learning techniques. Federated learning enables collaborative artificial...

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Reinventing Payments: Breaking Down Banking Infrastructure to Build a Composable Future
Reinventing Payments: Breaking Down Banking Infrastructure to Build a Composable Future
December 09, 2024  |  Banking

Banks rely on core tech to handle the basics: transactions, deposits, loans and more. But the kicker is that most of these systems were built...

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Banks Eye Stablecoins to Accelerate Cross-Border Innovation
Banks Eye Stablecoins to Accelerate Cross-Border Innovation
December 09, 2024  |  Cross-border Payments

Few bottlenecks across the payments landscape have been more intractable than that of cross-border payments. But with the news Thursday (Dec. 5) that the U.S. licensed...

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Banks Fight Back: How Cross-Border Technology Is Challenging FinTech Disruptors
Banks Fight Back: How Cross-Border Technology Is Challenging FinTech Disruptors
December 09, 2024  |  Cross-border Payments

Global financial messaging network Swift said earlier this year that it was working with 25 financial institutions (FIs) and application providers on a “proof of...

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CFPB Sues Comerica Bank Over Handling of Federal Benefits Program
CFPB Sues Comerica Bank Over Handling of Federal Benefits Program
December 06, 2024  |  Legal & Regulation

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sued Comerica Bank Friday (Dec. 6), alleging that the bank committed violations that include hanging up on customer service calls and...

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TD Bank Says Earnings Growth ‘Challenging’ Amid AML Remediation
TD Bank Says Earnings Growth ‘Challenging’ Amid AML Remediation
December 05, 2024  |  Bank Regulation

TD Bank Group said Thursday (Dec. 5) that for the coming fiscal year, “it will be challenging for the Bank to generate earnings growth,” as...

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AI Startup iGenius Building Supercomputer for Financial Services
AI Startup iGenius Building Supercomputer for Financial Services
December 05, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup iGenius said it is building one of the world’s largest Nvidia DGX AI supercomputers with Nvidia Grace Blackwell superchips and will use it to...

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