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It would force national banks to make loans to high-risk industries that often pose dangers to vulnerable communities. The next comptroller of the currency should instead promote equal credit availability for consumers who need it most.

Consumer banking may do better this year, while the investment banking boom is unlikely to repeat; several prominent investors likely took losses betting on Fannie, Freddie privatization.

Many financial institutions have made initial moves into real-time payments via P2P services, and the use cases will jump over time, says Fiserv's Matt Wilcox.

When life turns upside down, customers and employees need help with finding swift solutions to problems they may have never faced or even considered—and companies require innovation guided by more than a slide deck, says Western Union's Nicole Vogrin.

The Wall Street bank’s 51% jump in net income caps a strong earnings season for the biggest banks; President Biden is expected to nominate Michael Barr, a former assistant treasury secretary who helped write the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, as comptroller.

There’s a dynamic balance between the innovation and resiliency benefits of the messy, creative ferment of many smaller competitors, and an oligopoly or monopoly’s scale economies, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

The decentralizing of business payments staff requires agility that's permanent, says Nvoicepay's Lauren Ruef.

Lenders are expecting strong demand for the small business loans, especially for second-timers; a steeper yield curve is helping profits, but stronger loan growth would help even more.

Smaller institutions are relying on an issuing system that gives away control over card programs, says Corserv's David Luther.

Daniel Wolfe, editor-in-chief of PaymentsSource, talks to Derek Webster, founder and CEO of CardFlight, about his company's weekly merchant sentiment survey and how things have changed since the early days of the pandemic — and what changes are on the horizon.