Jagdeep Dayal

Bank dealmaking stirred back to life as Regions and M&T signaled renewed appetite for acquisitions and Pinnacle Bancorp pushed deeper into Texas, while rising rates dragged third-quarter mortgage earnings and cooled new-home lending. In payments, Visa and Mastercard pressed for final approval of their swipe-fee settlement, Stripe’s agentic commerce accelerated, and Circle moved to scale USDC across 40 new markets.