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Flush with capital, FHA resists calls to cut insurance premiums

BNP Paribas said to explore sale of Bank of the West

Senators seek crypto reporting fix as Biden signs infrastructure bill

BM Technologies acquiring Seattle bank for $23 million

How Deutsche Bank botched AML compliance in the Jeffrey Epstein case

Crypto firm Circle plans expansion with Asia HQ, venture arm

Fifth Circuit Binds Creditor To Plan Terms in Subsequent Case

Third party releases are a controversial topic with Congress considering legislation to ban them. However, Judge Greg Costa, writing for the Fifth Circuit, has distinguished between an impermissible third-party release and a plan provision reducing a

Fifth Circuit Reminds Courts About Summary Judgment Standard

Summary judgment was intended to be a method of disposing of cases where there are not any disputed issues for the court to trial. Sometimes it seems that summary judgment is a way to get rid of cases that the court doesn't want to try. In a new

Fintech Upstart teaming with banks, credit unions on small-dollar loans

A New Bankruptcy Bill Would End the ‘Texas Two-Step’ and Eliminate Non-Debtor Releases in Chapter 11

The proposed law would prohibit “divisive mergers” in Chapter 11, a corporate reorganization tool made available by Texas and Delaware that allows companies to assign liabilities to a subsidiary that can then seek the protective auspices of

Louisiana Credit Union League CEO to retire

Mastercard, MoCaFi test universal basic income card in New Orleans

Judges Series – Judge Homer Drake’s Top 10 Confirmation Opinions – Part 2 (#5)

We continue this week with our Bankruptcy Judges series. Georgia’s Ret. Judge W. Homer Drake, Jr. is the focus. You can find the introductory post here. Last week we covered the first half of Judge Drake’s Top 10 Chapter 11 confirmation opinions (i.e

JPMorgan executive on how payments are 'eating the world'

Remote tellers, restaurant-style pagers: Branch design in the COVID era

With Biden’s FHA nominee in limbo, mortgage market grows restless

Staley and Epstein swapped 1,200 emails over four years, FT says

Canadian transit agencies get on board with contactless debit

Did the Fed do more harm than good in 2020?

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