Corporate Banking

Hong Kong – November 09, 2026 -- Deutsche Bank and Ant Digital Technologies have jointly published a white paper, Agentic Payments in Wholesale Finance, that advocates "bounded agentic execution" rather than unrestricted autonomy for AI agents handling institutional payments.

White paper names three wholesale use cases for AI agents

The paper identifies treasury and liquidity management, cross-border payment orchestration and trade finance as the areas with the most operational and strategic value.

London – September 17, 2026 -- Finastra has partnered with Komgo to connect their respective trade finance platforms through an open API layer called Trade Innovation Nexus, targeting inefficiencies caused by fragmented systems and manual processing across bank and corporate trade workflows.

Nexus API links Komgo's Konsole platform with Finastra's Trade Innovation system

The integration connects Komgo's Konsole digital trade finance platform with Finastra's Trade Innovation solution without requiring changes to existing bank infrastructure. The companies state the link will reduce transaction times, onboarding delays and manual exceptions through automated workflows, while adding built-in regulatory checks and audit-readiness features.

New Orleans – – September 17, 2026 -- First Horizon Bank has appointed Jennifer Feske as Senior Commercial Portfolio Manager for its New Orleans market, tasking her with managing the bank's Northshore commercial portfolios.

Feske brings 15 years of banking experience to St. Tammany Parish accounts

Feske's background spans commercial banking and portfolio management, and she will now oversee client relationships across the Northshore region of the New Orleans market.

Jimmy Dunn cites market expertise as key to regional growth

Jimmy Dunn, New Orleans Market President for First Horizon Bank, said Feske's banking experience and market knowledge would benefit clients as the bank expands relationships throughout St. Tammany Parish.

London – – September 15, 2026 -- MVB Financial Corp. will settle eligible Visa Direct push-to-card payouts using stablecoins under a new pilot program announced with enterprise payments platform Velocity.

MVB gains stablecoin settlement rails inside its existing Visa Direct payment flows

The arrangement lets MVB use stablecoins for funding and settlement obligations tied to certain push-to-card payouts processed through Visa Direct. Availability depends on eligibility and geography, and digital-asset conversion, wallet connectivity and on-chain controls are handled by licensed partners rather than MVB directly.

Milwaukee – September 12, 2026 -- Ademi LLP has launched an investigation into the proposed acquisition of Eagle Financial Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFSI) by John Marshall Bancorp, questioning whether the deal's terms deliver fair value to EFSI's public shareholders.

Deal terms value EFSI shares at $46.72 based on a fixed exchange ratio

Under the agreement, EFSI shareholders will receive 2.0 shares of John Marshall common stock for each EFSI share held. That exchange ratio implies a per-share value of $46.72, calculated using John Marshall's closing stock price of $23.36 on September 4, 2026.

New York – September 12, 2026 -- Monteverde & Associates PC has opened an investigation into WaFd, Inc. (NASDAQ: WAFD) over the fairness of its proposed merger with EverBank Financial Corp., under which WaFd shareholders would retain approximately 40.825% ownership of the combined company.

Law firm questions shareholder ownership split in combined entity

Attorney Juan Monteverde of Monteverde & Associates PC, headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is examining whether the deal terms adequately compensate WaFd shareholders relative to the value being contributed to the merged institution.

Panama City – September 12, 2026 -- Bladex, Inc. (NYSE: BLX) placed MXN 5.0 billion in long-term Mexican notes (Cebures) in Mexico's public debt market, drawing orders of MXN 7.779 billion, 1.56 times the amount offered, and allowing the bank to fill its full authorized issuance.

Three-year floating-rate notes price at TIIE de Fondeo plus 58 basis points

The notes carry a three-year maturity and float against Mexico's one-business-day Interbank Equilibrium Interest Rate (TIIE de Fondeo), plus a spread of 58 basis points.

S&P and Fitch assign top local ratings ahead of pricing

S&P Global Ratings, S.A. de C.V. assigned the issuance a local rating of "mxAAA," while Fitch México, S.A. de C.V. rated it "AAA(mex)," the highest local scores available in the market.

Pittsburgh – September 12, 2026 -- PNC Bank has launched PNC Workplace Advantage, a workplace banking program targeting employers with 100 or more employees that seeks to boost benefits offerings without adding administrative burden.

PNC ties premium banking tier to workplace direct deposit enrollment

Employees who open a qualifying PNC checking account and set up a qualifying direct deposit method through their employer will be invited to enroll in PNC TotalRewards Silver Tier, a benefit level typically reserved for customers holding at least $25,000 in deposits and investments. The program provides banking rewards, personalized guidance from dedicated financial wellness professionals, virtual or onsite banking access, and financial education through live seminars and on-demand digital resources.

Everett, Washington – September 11, 2026 -- Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP has opened a securities fraud investigation into Coastal Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:CCB) after the bank's stock plunged 43.5% following disclosure of a massive credit loss tied to its banking-as-a-service partnerships.

Coastal Financial's stock collapsed 43.5% in a single trading session on September 11, 2026

Shares fell $30.75, from a close of $70.66 on September 11, 2026, to $39.91 the following day, after the company released Q2 2026 results.

Shanghai – September 10, 2026 -- China Merchants Bank has won the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) End User Case Study Contest after lifting average accelerator utilization from 35% to more than 60% and cutting inference cost per 1 million tokens by over 60%.

Unified control plane pools nearly 10,000 accelerator cards

The bank's AI infrastructure team built a single Kubernetes control plane combining Kueue, KEDA, Prometheus, HAMi, and Fluid, allowing training, fine-tuning, and online inference workloads to share close to 10,000 heterogeneous accelerator cards. Working with its data center and other internal teams, the bank brought 99% of its accelerator compute under this framework.