Howard Blankenship

Vice president of sales

Howard Blankenship is vice president of sales at Americas for CellPoint Digital.

Digital payments

Mexico will be a smooth landing for Apple Pay

There's already an appetite for digital and consumers should quickly embrace Apple's range of services, says CellPoint Digital's Howard Blankenship.

By Howard Blankenship

February 9

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M&A

Columbia struggled after Umpqua merger. Is the math starting to work?

The combination of two Pacific Northwest banks was supposed to create a regional powerhouse, but rising deposit costs have stung. CEO Clint Stein says he's "laser-focused" on making Columbia a top performer again.

By Polo Rocha

10h ago
Diversity and equality

Small banks 'feel like hostages' to their core systems: OCC's Hsu

A set of panels discussing minority depository institutions and digitization found that cost is a significant challenge to minority depository institutions, especially in the core processing space.

By Miriam Cross

May 3
Community banking

Regulators issue guidance to community banks on third-party risks

The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a 30-page guidebook on managing affiliate risks. The report builds on formal guidance issued last year.

By Kyle Campbell

May 3