U.S. government agency that oversees the Federal Reserve System, setting monetary policy and regulating and supervising banks and financial stability.
US private data-center construction ran at about $85 billion a year in August, 73% above a year earlier, according to the Census Bureau. AI spending only lifts growth when it rises, so the crews building these campuses now need next year's budgets to beat this year's.
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American Express's bank drew a $350 million OCC fine for anti-money-laundering failures as the Fed ordered its parent companies to fix controls company-wide. That repair work is the part of the bill Amex has not yet put a figure on.
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Five nonbank servicers hold nearly 59% of Ginnie Mae servicing rights, up from a little over half at the start of the year. Most banks are still staying out despite proposed capital relief, so advances on delinquent government loans fall on a few nonbank balance sheets.
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Fed's inspector general found that unclear roles among Fed divisions left a former staffer's removal of classified FOMC files unresolved for over a year. The Fed says its fix for escalating such alerts arrives by the first quarter of 2027, and part of the removed material has not been retrieved.
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Comptroller Jonathan Gould put a number on where charter capital is heading, and promised final GENIUS Act rules by November, weeks before the law takes effect.
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The FDIC, Federal Reserve, OCC and NCUA want examiners looking harder at transparency, contract structure and technology inside core servicing deals. The guidance carrying that expectation is non-binding, with 60 days for comment.
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A proposal from four federal agencies would size vendor oversight to the harm a relationship could do, while a separate statement from three of them says a few large core providers leave community banks little negotiating power.
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The three figures count firms, employment and individual workers, and the Census Bureau declared its own earlier adoption numbers incomparable after one clause in the question changed. Boards borrow such numbers to set targets.
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Better Markets says Michelle Bowman met big-bank executives privately and coached them to file mild comments, and it wants the Basel III proposal withdrawn and Bowman recused. She said she directed no one.
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The completed acquisition creates a $327 billion-asset US bank and a 2028 return-on-tangible-equity target of about 18%, against 10% last year. The systems merger lands barely a year before that.
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More than 60 comment letters flag the same hole: "material financial risk" is the reform's load-bearing concept, and the proposal leaves it blank. That hands discretion back to examiners.
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The White House has started a removal process the Supreme Court declined to define, with Governor Lisa Cook due to respond by Aug. 26. The standard set will outlast this board.
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The GENIUS Act proposal extends liability to exchanges and intermediaries, including offshore firms touching U.S. customers, and demands documented due diligence on foreign issuers.
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A NATO Special Operations University paper calls it the tragedy of the cognitive commons: cutting junior roles pays now, and the eroded senior pipeline is billed to the industry later.
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