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PPP lender Blueacorn tied to fraud conspiracy conviction

3 days ago | americanbanker.com | Catherine Leffert

One of the founders of Blueacorn — a fintech developed during the heyday of the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program — was found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to fraudulently obtain tens of millions of dollars from the initiative. The conviction is the latest in a trail of fraud left by PPP.
HFSC Chair Hill noncommittal on clean GENIUS passage

4 days ago | americanbanker.com | Claire Williams

WASHINGTON — Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., who leads the House Financial Services Committee, said that he wants both the stablecoin bill and market structure bill to President Donald Trump's desk by before Congress' August recess.
Banks face heightened cyber threat after U.S. bombs Iran

4 days ago | americanbanker.com | Carter Pape

Following U.S. airstrikes against Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure over the weekend, the United States faces an escalated cyber threat environment, with warnings issued for potential attacks against U.S. networks, including financial institutions.
Trump signs nullification of OCC bank merger guidelines

4 days ago | americanbanker.com | Claire Williams

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday evening signed a rule that officially eliminates the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's stricter reviews of certain bank mergers. Trump signed the Congressional Review Act resolution Friday nullifying the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's Biden-era rule that got rid of an expedited rule process for small banks, among other provisions.
What bankers need to know ahead of the 2025 stress tests

5 days ago | americanbanker.com | Catherine Leffert |Kevin Wack

Stress-test reform is almost certainly coming. But the annual regulatory exams, which measure how well-prepared banks are for economic shocks, are still more of a black box than the industry would prefer. So there will be some uncertainty when the Federal Reserve releases this year's results on Friday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. The stress-tested banks are expected to release their own updates, including any changes to their capital distribution plans, next week.
Top Treasury official wants to 'Americanize' any Basel rule

1 week ago | americanbanker.com | Ebrima Sanneh

The Treasury Department is working with the bank regulators to finish the U.S.'s Basel committee-pursuant capital standards with an eye to clearing obstacles for American firms and "harmonizing" regulation of the financial system, the deputy secretary said Friday.
Top fintech startups disrupting payments with AI, stablecoin

1 week ago | americanbanker.com | Cheryl Winokur Munk

The payments world is changing fast, and a swath of start-ups are leading the charge to transform how banks do business in up-and-coming areas such as stablecoins and artificial intelligence. , in particular, are becoming more important for banks, as of a bill that would set up a regulatory regime for payment stablecoins. This comes as Walmart and Amazon are considering issuing their own stablecoins in the U.S. as a payment alternative.
Market volatility has not cut valuations: Fed report

1 week ago | americanbanker.com | Kyle Campbell

The biannual monetary policy report was released Friday, ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's scheduled testimony in front of the House Financial Services Committee and Senate Banking Committee next Tuesday and Wednesday. In the report, the Fed concluded that financial markets continued to function through the period of heightened volatility that followed the April 2 rollout of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff program, but not without a few hiccups.
Parliamentarian knocks CFPB funding cut out of megabill

1 week ago | americanbanker.com | Claire Williams

WASHINGTON — The Senate parliamentarian has decided to disallow the slash to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funding in President Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" to reform government taxes and spending. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has advised that several provisions in Senate Banking Committee Republicans' spending legislation would violate the Byrd rule, which bars "extraneous" items from being included in reconciliation bills.
OCC outlines plan for referring regulatory offenses to DOJ

1 week ago | americanbanker.com | Ebrima Sanneh

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency this week issued a notice announcing it will comply with a recent executive order aimed at curbing overcriminalization in federal regulations. OCC's guidance, published Friday in the Federal Register, reminds staff to carefully consider criminal referrals and give the financial industry some very clear guidelines for where offenses will meet criminal thresholds.