Transcript:Penny Crosman (00:03):Welcome to the American Banker Podcast. I’m Penny Crosman. As the federal regulatory environment continues to make banks’ involvement in decentralized finance more feasible, one…

Almonty’s tungsten mine in Sangdong, South Korea, in March 2026.AlmontyBEIJING — The Iran war is squeezing a global commodities market already pressured by China’s export controls and…

Key insight: Wells Fargo says employees who want to decertify the union are acting independently, but labor organizers accuse the bank of engaging in union-busting.Processing ContentWhat’s at…

“Play games and earn cash” sounds like the dream side hustle. No selling. No commute. No special skills. Just tap away on your phone and watch the…

Jose Luis Pelaez | Getty ImagesStudent loan borrowers will soon be removed from the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, the Trump administration announced on…

Key insight: U.S. Bank is extending the maximum terms on its home-improvement loans to six or seven years, up from five years previously.What’s at stake: After a…

A week of “maximum uncertainty” should deliver a key opportunity for investors, according to Evercore ISI’s Julian Emanuel. “We’re getting towards an inflection point where we would…

What’s at stake: Adversaries are actively intercepting financial data today so they can decrypt it later once a capable quantum computer becomes available.Supporting data: Google plans to…