A top global financial watchdog says the “shadow banking” sector needs more regulation. Writing Monday (July 22) to a group of finance ministers and central bank governors, Financial Stability Board (FSB) Chair Klaas Knot said recent “incidents of market stress and liquidity strains” have shown that non-bank financial institutions...
A U.S. banking regulator has reportedly determined that many lenders aren’t prepared for risks. As Bloomberg News reported Sunday (July 21), a confidential assessment by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said 11 of the 22 large banks it oversees have “insufficient”...
If there ever was a day that needed a Plan B, it was Friday, July 19. Banks, airlines, hospitals, fast food chains, retailers, even the Paris Olympics, and nearly any and every business relying on a Microsoft Windows computer system found themselves grappling with a...
This quarter’s bank earnings, like the macroenvironment, have been mixed and unpredictable. And the ongoing theme of controlling for what’s controllable held true for Fifth Third Bancorp executives, who told investors during a second-quarter 2024 earnings call on Friday’s (July 19), “Geopolitical tensions remain elevated...
July 19, 2024
Anniversaries are a time to reflect, evaluate and to anticipate what lies ahead. And so it is with the FedNow® Service, which celebrates a year in the marketplace on July 20. As of now, about 700 banks have signed on to the new federal payments system infrastructure. The vast majority of those financial institutions (FIs) […]
July 17, 2024
Today’s digital landscape has transformed the operational calculus for financial institutions (FIs) and corporations. And with the news Thursday (July 17) that the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the...
July 17, 2024
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its own 40-year-old ruling in the LoperBright Enterprises v. Raimondo case on June 28 — in what has come to being popularly tagged SCOTUS...
July 15, 2024
The Connected Economy (CE) 100 Stock Index was launched in February 2022. It was introduced as an equity index of 100 publicly traded companies across 11 categories, aiming to track the...
July 22, 2024
Bitcoin Depot said Monday (July 22) that the number of Bitcoin ATMs it has in operation now totals 8,180, up from 7,400 on April 1. The company added that it reached its goal of having at least 8,000 Bitcoin ATMs five months ahead of schedule, according to a Monday press release. “Surpassing our deployment goal well […]
July 22, 2024
A top global financial watchdog says the “shadow banking” sector needs more regulation. Writing Monday (July 22) to a group of finance ministers and central bank governors, Financial Stability Board (FSB) Chair Klaas...
July 21, 2024
A U.S. banking regulator has reportedly determined that many lenders aren’t prepared for risks. As Bloomberg News reported Sunday (July 21), a confidential assessment by the Office of the Comptroller...
July 19, 2024
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) reiterated her opposition to the proposed Capital One–Discover merger. Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), testified against the proposed merger Friday...
