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Two lawsuits allege First Horizon's help desk reissued security tokens to impostors; in one, 12 wires totaling $6.5 million left by March 5. The Rabideau Klein complaint also describes a phished mailbox, forwarded phone lines and a password-reset tool that showed a user ID.
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Navy Federal Credit Union is using AI bots that pose as scam victims to block payments to fraud accounts before any of its 14 million members send money. Payments that settle in seconds leave no day-long window to catch a scam, so the credit union is moving its screening ahead of the transfer for members whose deployments make sudden large payments less unusual.
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Fidelity has set a $100 million asset minimum for RIA clients, whose median firm already runs $328 million, according to AdvizorPro. Advisers below the line can pool assets through a consolidator, move to another custodian or grow, and each route has a cost.
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RQD's $74 million Bain-led raise was focused on international clearing, Datos Insights analysts say, as Fidelity moves to drop smaller RIAs. Fidelity's July 2027 cutoff at $100 million held with it gives a lift to an RQD adviser business of roughly 50 clients.
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Revolut charges merchants 0% processing fees on face-scan payments in a UK pilot built around Revolut Register, its point-of-sale device for hospitality. The waiver costs Revolut only as much as shoppers pay by face, a demand one Celent analyst calls unproven.
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Adyen's 2026 fraud report, built on $1.6 trillion in payments, found about half of surveyed merchants saw more good orders wrongly declined. Those lost sales rarely reach the dashboards where fraud teams track chargebacks, so the cost of caution goes largely uncounted.
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The bank will not say what it paid. JPMorgan says its Newline unit is meant to grow deposits 35% to 50% a year, roughly double the pace forecast for embedded payments overall.
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The largest acquisition in Vanguard's history is a distribution deal with a second target: the net interest income rival custodians earn on client cash.
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American Express took its Platinum fee to $895 and Chase took Sapphire Reserve to $795. Consultants at Datos Insights and EY say the increases cover rising rewards costs and also shed holders who only chase points.
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Bank fee hikes on trust work are a real exit signal for advisors with mass-affluent books, but the asset share it moves is 0.6 percentage points a year, and most of the RIA channel's headcount came from somewhere other than banks.
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The higher marginal rate reaches only clients joining Schwab Wealth Advisory from October 1, which puts the increase where a consolidated client is hardest to move and leaves the entry price alone.
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TradePMR will not quote from a rate card, and it reopens each negotiated rate once a year, because the line Robinhood is underwriting is net deposits from the advisor channel rather than custody fees. The referral volume that would settle it is undisclosed.
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The Singapore firm sells one integration in place of a pile of regional vendors. Datos Insights says that complexity does not disappear, it moves onto Nium's own books.
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Digital Managed Solutions is a hybrid robo built backwards, starting from branch offices instead of an app. The test is whether small-town distribution is an asset or overhead.
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The custodian's second minimum increase this year takes the Schwab Advisor Network floor from $500,000 to $5 million in twelve months. The lead count is the symptom, not the problem.
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The CFPB dropped its rule treating buy now/pay later like credit cards. EU affordability checks bite in November, and any US provider selling into Europe inherits them anyway.
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