BankThink

Some of today's credit products and practices risk leaving consumers trapped in a cycle of debt.

Restrictions on bank ownership act as a de facto poison pill, discouraging potential activist investors from challenging underperforming bank managers. Ease those restrictions and the market will do its job.

Banks Target Home Equity; Bitcoin Rival Emerges

The capacity for EMV cards to swiftly and drastically reduce payment card fraud in the U.S. is by no means assured.

The way we verify people are who they say they are must evolve to reflect new technologies like peer-to-peer platforms and the Internet of Things and the ways millennials live and work.

Nandita Bakhshi and Ellen Alemany discuss strategy; Beth Mooney strikes a deal; a Lehman Sister recounts her experience as a woman at the top of Wall Street in its doomsday; and HSBC sets a goal to have equal gender representation in certain areas by 2020. Plus, some interesting research on equal pay for women, and good grief, Raymond Moore.

Favorable economic factors won’t last forever for lending startups. Here are the factors that will make or break nonbank lenders when market conditions get rockier.

Credit Suisse CEO Blindsided; A CIT Comeback?

We may have more in common than we let on, there are some things that I think Canadians are doing better than their counterparts, including the U.S. and that includes fraud management.

Between surpassing the 100 million-member mark and $1 trillion in savings, credit unions are ready for their close-up.