Mortgage rates decline

While the U.S. economy expanded at the end of 2025, it was at a more moderate pace than initially expected. Despite the downward revision in Q4, GDP growth remains positive and loan demand could remain healthy.

Higher price growth will keep pressuring margins and weakening overall profitability for both financial services and their clients, as rising costs and macroeconomic uncertainty erode financial performance.

A prohibition on paying interest or yield on payment stablecoins would do “very little” to protect bank lending “while forgoing the consumer benefits of competitive returns on stablecoin holdings,” according to a new report by the White House...

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and Office of Foreign Asset Control jointly proposed a new rule to establish BSA and sanctions compliance obligations for payment stablecoin issuers.

The lingering effects of tariffs, along with the conflict with Iran, have led most Federal Open Market Committee members to believe that reaching its 2% inflation target could take longer than anticipated, according to minutes from the FOMC’s...

The Federal Reserve proposed a new rule to let banks and credit unions use intermediaries to send transfers through the FedNow payments service, which would allow for cross-border payments.