BankThink

The next administration must halt the practice of allowing new entrants into the banking system to forgo a full Community Reinvestment Act exam.

The auto company said it bought $1.5 billion of the digital currency and plans to accept it for purchases; but the two top contenders share similar views on racial inequality in banking.

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

Fintechs and challenger banks are small, nimble and tech-centric. However, incumbents have strong reputations, customer trust and loyalty built over many decades, says Twilio's Bijon Mehta.

Free financial education programs and easier access to safe small-dollar loans are among the ways banks could help put low-income minority households on a path to prosperity.

The money transfer service has been accused of aggressively collecting on overdrawn customers; the asset manager is being urge to pressure the bank to cut fossil fuel lending.

Merchants are making a miscalculation on data management, says FreedomPay's Chris Kronenthal.

Regulators are right to encourage environmentally responsible lending, but with the transition to a low-carbon economy likely to take decades, they can’t allow banks to cut off lending to polluting firms cold turkey — especially to those making good-faith efforts to lower emissions.

COVID-19 has taken a great deal away from us in the past 12 months, but from a digital payments perspective, it has also opened the doors for new innovation and activity, says Cognizant Softvision's Karla Ch'ien.

The company did more than $20 billion in in-store volume last year at more than 600,000 merchants; the president is now considering using an executive order to erase the debts.