Monday, September 26, 2016 | as of 6:39 PM ET

Consumer Finance

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Have the Courage to Believe: BBVA's Rosilyn Houston

Rosilyn Houston couldn't have known it at the time, but the year she spent caring for her toddler son while he underwent treatment for leukemia would have a profound impact on the trajectory of her career.

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Breaking News

Amex Can Bar Merchants from Steering Customers to Rival Cards 05:00PM ET

CFPB Fines Auto Title Firm $9M for Unfair Debt Collection 02:56PM ET

'Nonbank Attackers' Could Eat Banks' Lunch in Payments: McKinsey 04:33PM ET

CFPB Files Lawsuit Against California Credit Repair Firm 01:39PM ET

Wells Board, Tolstedt Sued by Investor Over Accounts Scandal 10:56AM ET

MUFG Union Bank Names Private Wealth Management Exec 04:27PM ET

Wells Fargo's Chief Risk Officer for Retail Bank Takes Leave 02:01PM ET

Bucking Trend, SunTrust, Flagstar Stockpile Mortgage Servicing Rights

Banks are dumping their mortgage servicing rights because low rates and new rules make it hard to earn a profit. SunTrust, Flagstar and First South Bancorp in North Carolina are taking the opposite view.
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Law & Regulation

National/Regional

'Nonbank Attackers' Could Eat Banks' Lunch in Payments: McKinsey

Financial institutions must act on the "urgent and fundamental" need to transform the correspondent banking system, the consulting firm said in an annual report on global payments.

Bank Technology

JPMorgan, Finra Sue Whistleblower Over $624 (Not a Typo) Loss

Johnny Burris, an investment advisor, has been embroiled in a four-year dispute with the bank, his former employer, which he says pressured him to push his clients into the bank's own or favored investment products. JPMorgan, and now Finra, accuse Burris of causing the (three-figure) client loss and neglecting to make his superiors aware of the problem.

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Fannie Mae to Trigger 'Seismic Event' for Underwriting

Fannie Mae employees will be working this weekend to update the agency's automated underwriting machine to process trended data for the first time.

Same-Day ACH's First Phase Gives Banks a Platform, Not a Silver Bullet

Starting Friday, all U.S. banks should be able to receive same-day payments. But by itself, same-day speed may not be enough to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world.

Bank Technology

Wells Scandal Renews Calls to Split Up CEO and Chairman Roles

An independent chairman could uncover or minimize damage from fraud while also meting out punishment more impartially after the fact. The longtime corporate governance argument has new legs in light of the account scam at Wells Fargo, whose board is led by CEO John Stumpf.

Law & Regulation

Dealmaking & Strategy

Banks' Online Ad Spending Soars in Quest for Trackable Data

Bankers may have a reputation for being old-school, but their rapidly growing digital-ad budgets are in step with the rest of the business world. Banks can both gather valuable demographic data from who clicks on their ads and better measure returns on their investments.

Bank Technology

Community Banking

Bankers Temper Their Outlooks on Loan Growth Ever So Slightly

Bankers generally expect loan demand to increase over the next year, but global shocks, domestic politics and regional economic variations may be prompting them to prepare for slightly slower growth than before.

Dealmaking & Strategy

Community Banking

After Brutal Hearing, What's Next for Wells Fargo?

John Stumpf may have hoped that Tuesday's hearing on Capitol Hill would mark a key turning point in Wells Fargo's blossoming scandal, but his harsh questioning by lawmakers — and his struggle to answer many of their questions — suggests that the embattled megabank's problems are just beginning.

Law & Regulation

National/Regional

Can Technology Prevent Wells Fargo-Style Account Fraud?

Fraud analytics, e-signatures, consent tools, artificial intelligence and notifications are all being floated as possible defenses against employees making up fake account openings and product sales.
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Bank Technology

Push to Boost Pay in Branches Gets Help from Wells Scandal

A union-led coalition is seizing the opportunity presented by the firing of 5,300 workers at Wells Fargo to call for higher pay and better working conditions for branch employees.

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