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The Treasury Department will release a report early next year on opportunities and risks posed by fintech as part of administration efforts to reform the regulatory structure, Craig Phillips said.

There's never an easy time to change leaders, but for American Express it's a particularly challenging time as it faces legal challenges to a core part of its fee structure and is still revamping its business model after a stinging client loss.

First Bank will enter a new market and gain access to low-cost deposits after it completes the acquisition.

The non-binding guidance, which followed a nearly yearlong inquiry about industry practices, said consumers should have greater ability to obtain information about their financial data, among other principles.

The Minneapolis company is considering re-entering a business it exited under pressure from its regulator in 2014.

The Illinois company, four months removed from its last bank acquisition, just announced the biggest purchase in its history. Alpine Bancorp. will add low-cost deposits and scale to Midland States' wealth management business.

Recent regulatory reform activity is a step in the right direction, but the changes envisioned in both a Treasury Department report and a suite of House bills are a mixed bag.

  A finding that a transfer of funds from a joint account to the wife's account created an avoidable fraudulent transfer was reversed and remanded in  In

Mac Acquisition LLC (dba Romano’s Macaroni Grill), along with eight affiliates and subsidiaries, has filed a