Banking

The agency plans to restrict access to a system that provides borrower tax returns to mortgage lenders beginning June 30. Left out of the loop, small-business lenders say getting credit to borrowers will become more difficult as a result.

Educational assistance programs can help employees cope with the resumption of payments through a tax-free fringe benefit.

Lots of letters; sales tax and crumbling streets; a different look at due diligence; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The justices, voting 6-3 along ideological lines, sided with six Republican-led states that sued to challenge the program.

A recent study looked at government-backed virtual currency.

Plus, Lockstep releases new self-service portal; OneStream announces Solutions Exchange; and other accounting tech stories.

While a securities-based loan is more commonly used to buy a fancy house or take a dream vacation, it's also an underused strategy for some affluent investors to pay large tax bills.

Fair-value accounting helped bring down SVB; could discounted cash flow valuation have kept it going?

The closure of crypto-friendly Silvergate Capital and seizure of Signature Bank have left crypto firms struggling to find new banks for depository and payment services.

The financial automation software provider is expanding its services in the aftermath of the SVB crash.

While depositors will be made whole under an extraordinary move by regulators, a fire sale of the entire bank and advisors fleeing to competitors create new challenges.

A short seller says the problems that triggered the bank's death spiral were clear from the firm's earnings reports.

The true benefits of a strong partnership with a lender go beyond helping a CPA firm's clients or providing referrals.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs announced 10 winners of its student loan debt lottery, with each receiving $1,200 toward their student loan debt.

If the program ultimately moves forward, tax professionals should know about the rules when advising their clients.

British researchers say they have developed an AI tool that calculates whether it would be worth it to bail out a failing bank.

An incorrectly formatted spreadsheet caused Iceland to price the sale of its Islandsbanki stake too cheaply earlier this year, an investigation by the National Audit Office has found.

In this edition of the Frontier, Gayle Heskiel, COO of Net at Work, talks about the rise of outcome-based pricing and the changes required to get there.

Top 25 firm Withum awarded $95,000 in grant funding through the Thomas R. Suarez Student Loan Grant program to help its employees reimburse their student loans. 

The Bank of International Settlements announced the successful conclusion of a test between four central banks to transfer central bank digital coins between themselves.