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Earnings season for financial services officially kicked off this morning, with three of the top four banks reporting earnings. Let's look at JPMorgan first. By most measures, they crushed it. The country's largest bank reported $13.42 billion in profit on $41.93 billion in revenue - that is for the first quarter folks, not a year.

We learned a couple of weeks back that the former head of Marcus, Swati Bhatia, had taken a job at Santander to lead U.S. consumer and business banking. Yesterday, we learned more details about what this new job is going to entail.

We learned a couple of weeks back that the former head of Marcus, Swati Bhatia, had taken a job at Santander to lead U.S. consumer and business banking. Yesterday, we learned more details about what this new job is going to entail.

In May of last year, Petal announced it had raised a new funding round and was spinning off its infrastructure unit, Prism Data. But then we heard in November that Petal was struggling and looking for a buyer.

Anyway you slice it, we have not been doing a good job in stopping money laundering. It is estimated that we only catch 1-2% of all illicit money flowing through the banking system. Yet as an industry, we spend many billions of dollars in this fight.