BankThink

Banks that haven't built a plan to implement the Federal Reserve's new real-time payments system still have time to make up lost ground.

If the U.S. and Canada don't develop a coherent framework for regulating the industry, North America risks broader losses to other growing industries, like fintech and artificial intelligence.

Years of consolidation have damaged competition in the banking sector. Regulators should be more, not less, restrictive about approving mergers.

Regulators need to recognize the uniqueness and potential of cryptocurrency instead of seeking to fit crypto assets into an outdated regulatory framework.

Widespread adoption of a central bank digital currency would utterly transform the financial services sector by reducing access to loans and raising prices for consumers.

The Federal Reserve has taken heat in recent years for its forays into climate stress testing, but the effects of climate change on the broader economy are getting harder to ignore.

It would be a mistake for regulators in the U.S. and Canada to delay the rollout of rules supporting open banking. Fears of bank runs as a result of customer access to their own financial data are overblown.

If history is any guide, periods of disruption in the industry are followed by regulatory resets, which in turn force banks to compete for the talent needed to meet new compliance demands.

Americans are going to invest in crypto no matter what politicians and regulators think. So, it would be better to keep crypto exchanges in the U.S., and under SEC supervision, than to drive them overseas.

Curt Farmer, CEO of the Dallas company, defends its management of a Treasury Department program that provides federal benefits on prepaid cards. He says a recent American Banker investigative article "ignores the fact that Comerica took steps to protect Direct Express users when it became aware that a third-party vendor had not followed program protocols for reviewing customer inquiries."