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Piecemeal settlement through mandatory arbitration masks widespread misconduct like Wells Fargo’s fake-accounts scandal. Class actions bring such systemic abuses to light, and should always be an option for consumer redress.

Payments company rises as hot premium cards fly under its banner; despite the improvements, analysts have concerns about growing credit quality issues.

As an industry, payment system providers and other IoT systems makers in all stripes and colors need to shift the paradigm and build in tamper-proof security based on their original configuration, writes Assaf Harel, CTO of Karamba Security.

Baby boomers may have been overtaken as the largest generation of consumers in America, but the older demographic still presents plenty of business opportunities for credit unions.

A profile of New York's top cop for banking offers insight into her thinking on hot regulatory issues; the women behind the machine learning at Morgan Stanley and UBS see a future with better advice; plus, Jane Austen and the new Doctor Who.

Customer services are between two human beings. The quality of their exchange is more important than the resolution.

Acting Comptroller Keith Noreika says his agency is prepared to defend its authority to grant banking licenses to fintech firms; lawmakers hopeful they can block anti-arbitration rule before it takes effect.

Hub brand requirements are modest compared with retail systems. They communicate reputation and trust to a relatively small set of sophisticated firms they hope to serve.

The banking industry is evolving. Doesn’t it make more sense to focus on how to evolve with it rather than how to reduce competition?

The bank’s once-vaunted bond trading unit reports its second bad quarterly performance in a row; Cordray tells OCC it’s too late to stop rule prohibiting mandatory arbitration.