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  • Sam Bankman-Fried
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    Bankman-Fried files to appeal conviction, sentence

    In an email interview following his sentencing, the FTX founder told ABC News he’s “haunted, every day, by what was lost. I never intended to hurt anyone or take anyone’s money.”

    By April 12, 2024
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    Citi’s reorg job toll climbs to 7,000: Fraser

    The bank boosted its expectation for annual savings to $1.5 billion. Meanwhile, Citi, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase reported marked increases in FDIC special assessment costs.

    By April 12, 2024
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    Top 5 stories from Banking Dive

    Everything old is new again. One year after Citi’s reorganization, progress comes in “fits and starts.” Meanwhile, a contentious proposed rule is generating “voluminous” feedback after 14 months.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Gruenberg: FDIC knows how it would wind down a G-SIB

    Until the FDIC and regulators are tasked with a G-SIB wind-down, and until they do so successfully, questions will arise “as to whether it can be done,” the agency chief said.

    By April 11, 2024
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    KeyBank scouts for fintech partners

    The bank, which has yet to strike a fintech partnership this year, generally enters into one to two each year, said Ken Gavrity, president of Key Commercial Bank.

    By April 10, 2024
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    Utah Ponzi scheme case envelops bank executive

    Bank of Utah’s vice president and senior trust officer knowingly disregarded fraudulent activity and divulged protected financial information, a lawsuit asserts.

    By April 9, 2024
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    Dimon blasts regulation, proxy advisers in annual letter

    The JPMorgan Chase CEO also gave prominent space to AI, touting its potential impact in software engineering, customer service and operations, “as well as in general employee productivity."

    By April 8, 2024
  • RBC joins Citi, JPMorgan in disclosing green financing ratios

    Shareholder proposals put forward by New York City’s retirement system have been pulled at all three banks, the city's comptroller, Brad Lander, said this week.

    By Lamar Johnson • April 5, 2024
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    Citi says 71% of energy clients lack substantive transition plan or ‘ability to execute’

    The bank made the disclosure in its latest climate report in response to a proposal that had been issued by shareholder advocacy group As You Sow.

    By Lamar Johnson • April 1, 2024
  • Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, speaks at a roundtable discussion.
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    Mississippi hands BlackRock cease-and-desist order over ESG investments

    BlackRock risks a “multimillion-dollar penalty” from the state’s Securities Division, which “has uncovered thousands of potential violations,” Mississippi's secretary of state’s office said.

    By Lamar Johnson • March 29, 2024
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    Citi agrees to disclose green financing ratios, following JPMorgan

    The New York City comptroller has withdrawn shareholder proposals with the two banks. The measure still faces votes at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Royal Bank of Canada.

    By Lamar Johnson • March 26, 2024
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    ‘Lax lending practices’ led to Iowa bank’s downfall: FDIC OIG

    The report called out inaction on the part of the community bank’s management to address issues flagged by regulators in recent years.

    By March 25, 2024
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    Dive Deposits: ESG isn’t just BlackRock’s fight

    If it seems like banks are backing off of their sustainability efforts, comments from Barclays, TD and UBS may give added perspective.

    By March 22, 2024
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    Advocates urge transparency in Capital One-Discover review

    More than 30 organizations demanded the deal not be subject to expedited federal review and that public hearings be held in the largest lending markets for both Capital One and Discover.

    By March 22, 2024
  • Sam Bankman-Fried
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    FTX CEO says Bankman-Fried lives ‘life of delusion’

    In his victim impact statement, John Ray III told Judge Lewis Kaplan that FTX’s estate was “a metaphorical dumpster fire” when he joined the firm at bankruptcy.

    By March 21, 2024
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    He could get 5 years. He could get 100. For how long will Sam Bankman-Fried go to prison?

    Ryan Lee O'Neill, a New Jersey-based defense attorney, has represented countless defendants in the FTX founder's place. She has her own estimates.

    By March 20, 2024
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    U.S. Bank to pay $6M to settle CFTC WhatsApp probe

    The penalty comes a month after the SEC ordered the Minneapolis-based bank to pay $8 million over record-keeping failures and alleged use of off-channel communications.

    By March 20, 2024
  • FTC fines fintechs Biz2Credit, Womply $59M over PPP actions

    The agency claimed Biz2Credit misrepresented the timeline for application processing, and Womply had inadequate customer service in the COVID-era crunch for small-business loans.

    By March 19, 2024
  • PNC CEO Bill Demchak
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    PNC leans on ‘boring’ label in new marketing campaign

    While PNC’s CEO said his industry “sometimes chases shiny objects,” a J.D. Power analyst asserted the bank’s ads may challenge customers to see the meaning of “boring” differently.

    By March 19, 2024
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    JPMorgan Chase fined $348.2M over gaps in trade data reporting

    The bank “failed to surveil billions of instances of trading activity on at least 30 global trading venues,” the OCC alleged. “These gaps and deficiencies … constitute unsafe or unsound banking practices.”

    By March 14, 2024
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    UK’s Metro Bank eyes £30M more in cost savings by year’s end

    The bank expects to lay off additional employees — it has cut 1,000 since October — and it will abandon its seven-day-a-week branch model.

    By March 14, 2024
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    Compliance, overdraft fees may get greater focus in left-leaning NCUA

    Liquidity and interest rate risk remain “very high priorities” for regulatory agencies, credit union executives said at a conference last week.

    By Ken McCarthy • March 11, 2024
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    Regional bank execs push back on CRE risk fears

    The banking sector relearns every 15 years not to overly concentrate its balance sheet in one area, Fifth Third CEO Tim Spence said. Meanwhile, Citizens Bank expects its CRE loan losses to peak at the end of this year.

    By March 11, 2024
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    Deep Dive

    A year after SVB, what’s improved and what needs work?

    Banking Dive looks at six factors — from upcoming regulations to commercial real estate — to see how the landscape has changed between the crises of 2023 and 2024.

    By March 8, 2024
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    NYCB names ex-OCC chief Otting as CEO

    Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will take a seat on the bank's board after his Liberty Strategic Capital and other investors infused NYCB with $1.05 billion.

    By March 7, 2024
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    Dive Deposits: TD gives its AML woes long-haul messaging

    The bank's First Horizon stumble is as woven into its fabric as the Revlon error is for Citi, or the fake-accounts scandal is for Wells Fargo, if one looks at TD's responses to analysts.

    By March 6, 2024