Glen Sarvady

For anyone else who follows both #baseball and #banking- gotta say PNC’s incorporation of Paul Skenes into its Brilliantly Boring campaign is, um, brilliant.

She’s somehow tying this to Biden? Why not throw in Pelosi while she’s at it?

Visa closes US open-banking unit as data fight heats up, source says Payments processor Visa has shuttered its open-banking business in the United States, according to a source familiar with the matter, as tensions mount between banks and fintechs over access to customer data.

Of course as soon as we post the list, the big blockbuster hits the wires…. www.reuters.com/business/fin... Visa suddenly found itself in a dicey situation, but this is still a shocker.

A major exhale…. Illinois issues a one-year extension on its bizarre interchange law (item 1 below), just before heading into recess. Merely kicks the can down the road for now, but buys time for a real solution www.digitaltransactions.net/illinois-del...

From a distance it seemed like a fairly serene week. Nope….

Repeat after me: “No premature celebrations…” #creditunions

The Coinbase story is particularly wild- up 20% on Monday’s news, down 7% on Thursday’s, hit a new high today #fintech #crypto

Virginia-based Capital One to become nation’s largest credit card company with Discover approval - WTOP News Tysons, Virginia-based Capital One Financial is now the nation’s largest issuer of credit cards after receiving final regulatory approval for its acquisition of Discover Financial.

How about a bonus headline for Easter? On Friday the Capital one- Discover deal received its long-awaited OCC/Fed approval wtop.com/business-fin...

It’s beyond remarkable that according to the circulating list Gleason isn’t even on the DOGE directory (yet Trump Chief of Staff Susan Wiles is….)

Amazed this isn’t getting more attention- Atlanta Fed’s GDP Now forecast took a drastic turn last week and was downgraded further today- it’s now -2.8% for Q1 www.atlantafed.org/-/media/docu...

This forecast tends to be solid, I can’t pinpoint a quantitative shift explaining this magnitude of drop

Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including bitcoin, Solana, XRP and more Cryptocurrencies rallied on Sunday after President Donald Trump announced the creation of a U.S. strategic crypto reserve.

For those catching up on Sunday’s noise: www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/... Kudos to @cnbc.com for pointing out Friday’s #crypto summit which may explain the need to juice the market (Note also the need for a follow-up post to correct the omission of #BTC and #ETH)

Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote United States

I find it odd that coverage of President Trump’s #crypto post ignores the fact that none of his new claims are actually in the Executive Order www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I don’t see CU Today on here yet, so let me share there work

As I often say, “More than United than divides us” www.cutoday.info/site/Fresh-T... #creditunions