ABA Fraudcast: The power of AI and trusting that voice on the phone

The federal banking agencies rescinded existing risk management model guidance and replaced it with revised principles that they said better account for a financial institution’s size and complexity. ABA applauded the revisions, noting that banks' use of AI...

Overall, generative AI adoption remains widely uneven across the workforce.

In the first part in a series, a risk and compliance expert discusses how technology risk in the financial sector increasingly defies traditional definitions and compliance efforts, and how banks can move beyond siloed thinking.

Federal Home Loan Bank members should be allowed to use short-term FHLB letters of credit to secure advances through the Federal Reserve’s discount window, the Council of FHLBs suggested in a recent letter to FHFA Director Bill Pulte.

A recent study of more than 150 years of U.S. bank data has concluded that weak fundamentals are the primary driver of bank failures, and that strong banks usually survive runs.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act is a critical consumer protection law that supports responsible lending, and policymakers should avoid changes that could restrict credit availability by reducing data accuracy or adding complexity, banker Veneshia Ferdinand told House lawmakers...