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Bank Secrecy Act reports flagged approximately $12.7 billion in suspected digital asset investment scam activity during a roughly two-year period beginning in 2023, showcasing the extent of the problem, according to a FinCEN analysis. The agency also published...

If consumers and businesses are encouraged to move money from bank deposits into stablecoins that offer interest-like rewards, those funds will no longer support local lending in the way they previously did, ABA Chair Kenneth Kelly said in...

SPONSORED CONTENT PRESENTED BY OUTSYSTEMS At banks and lending institutions, IT departments are focused on moving AI-powered solutions from pilot programs into production. But successful deployment is where the real work begins, and with dozens of AI agents...

A proposed rule to require payment stablecoin issuers to maintain customer identification programs must go further if it is to reflect those firms’ business models and ensure equal treatment for all financial institutions, ABA said.

A recent effort by the Financial Action Task Force to improve cross-border payment transparency is commendable, but there are additional steps the task force should take to reduce operational challenges and preserve a true risk-based approach, ABA said.

For many banks, there's simply too much going on. Compliance is a constant struggle, security is a moving target, and day-to-day operations take priority over everything else. When vendors quietly drop support for aging IT systems, your bank's...