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Saturday March 11, 2023; 6 PM PST We at Klaros have received numerous inquiries today from VCs and portfolio companies with concerns...

By MARY DENT & TRACY BASINGER The FDIC’s biennial national survey of unbanked and underbanked households has been the “go to” reference...

BY ADAM SHAPIRO Banking as a Service (BaaS) is not only here to stay, it came to play: according to a recent Juniper Research report,...

Happy New Year from the Klaros Group! Like our media friends at Axios, Bloomberg, and Fortune, we took stock of the trends that dominated...

BY JONAH CRANE Over the past year, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates at the fastest pace in history, and quickly rolled back...

BY PATRICK HAGGERTY Banks have been providing back-end services that enable nonbanks to offer financial services to their customers for...

BY CHRISTINA HUNT-FUHR Fraud is everywhere in financial services. It’s increasing in both volume and cost, now accounting for up to 5% of...

BY BRIAN GRAHAM A lot of folks in fintech are still talking about Acting OCC Comptroller Michael Hsu’s recent speech, which among other...

BY STEPHANIE WHITE BOOKER AND PAUL MARKER My Klaros colleagues Lauren Sartwell and Siena Marr explained the Consumer Financial...

BY VINCE CUROTTO Community banks are vital. According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, “These institutions play a...

BY JOSHUA DIAMOND The Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett’s famous quote, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming...

BY TRACY BASINGER Time is getting short for bankers to submit comments on the proposed interagency revamp of the Community Reinvestment...

By Andreas Westgaard, Michele Alt, and Gabriel Yeung At Klaros, we’re in the bank design business. Our partners and staff work with a...

By Jonah Crane and Patrick Haggerty Last week, the Federal Reserve Board (Board) issued a supplement to its proposed guidelines for...

It’s Pride Month, and corporations of all types are waving their rainbow flags. It’s easy to see why: a recent Hornet/Kantar study found...