Podcast: Accelerating bank innovation in the months ahead

Small business owners' priorities and how banks can meet their needs in 2026, from SBA lending to succession planning and acquisition financing.

Artificial intelligence is “supercharging” the cybersecurity arms race, with cyber-enabled fraud affecting people of all stripes, according to a new Global Cybersecurity Outlook report by the World Economic Forum and professional services firm Accenture.

ABA joined four other associations to request that the FDIC push back the deadline for comment on its proposal to create a process through which banks can seek agency approval to issue stablecoins through a subsidiary.

BNPL is now the fourth most accepted form of payment at small businesses, behind debit or credit cards, digital wallets, and cash. At the same time, merchants express growing interest in cryptocurrency.

If Texas were an independent country, its economy would rank as the world's eighth-largest. "France is seventh, and I don't think it'll take as much time at all to catch them," laughs TBA Chairman Ron Butler.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.) delayed a scheduled committee vote on cryptocurrency market structure legislation. Banking advocates have sent more than 10,000 letters to Senate offices in recent days calling on Congress to use the bill...