BankThink

Identifying threats to a single bank or the financial system as a whole can be tricky, but there are steps bankers can take to protect themselves.

Analysts are wondering what the big Japanese technology fund plans to do with its proposed stake in Swiss Re; the insurer takes a onetime $6.7 billion loss due to tax reform.

The best course of action would be seek a policy, or an endorsement to your policy, that specifically includes coverage for all PCI fee, according to Karin Scherner Aldama, a partner at Perkins Coie's Insurance Recovery Law Practice.

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More than one-third of the Office of Financial Research’s staff could soon be laid off, but the agency seems to lack the political clout needed to block the move.

Employers have to find a way to keep associates productive and satisfied while this transition in payments experience is underway, writes Mike Zorn, vice president of Workplace Strategy at WorkJam.

Additional consolidation would not strengthen the industry, but would instead leave consumers with less choice and reduced access to financial services.

S&P lowers the bank’s rating to A-minus following Federal Reserve sanctions on growth; 13 are arrested after alleging defrauding banks of $530 million over seven years.

Like similar bans on using credit cards to buy stock and derivatives, banks would rather people use credit cards for other purposes than buying bitcoin, writes Alfred Duncan, a lecturer at the University of Kent.

As billions of devices interact in trillions of transactions, autonomous payments will be required because there simply won’t be enough humans on earth to look at them all, writes Vaughan Emery, founder and CEO of Atonomi.