Jagdeep Dayal

Regulators and dealmakers drove the week: an Ohio bank struck a $728 million deal for a D.C.-area lender, community banks sued the OCC over its crypto-friendly trust charters, and two senators moved to block a 195%-APR lender’s bank acquisition. In payments, merchant point-of-sale and buy-now-pay-later competition intensified and a fintech sought its own national charter.