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Blackstone Capitalizes on Bank Cast-Offs; Chenault's Woes at Amex

An increase in terrorist threats means an increased need for funding to carry out those threats, leading financial regulators to ramp up anti-money laundering scrutiny, including credit unions.

For processors, EMV has been the hot topic, as the industry looked to the liability shift last fall. But the challenge has just started, as the migration presents myriad security and compliance tasks.

Gender parity is high on the agenda in Davos, where the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering of the wealthiest and most powerful is overwhelmingly male. Ian Bremmer makes a case for keeping Christine Lagarde at the IMF for another term and a study suggests that as technology starts taking people’s jobs, women will suffer the bulk of the job losses.

Money-laundering episodes included a purported Whitey Bulger associate looting a church's coffers and the arrest of a Houston socialite on gambling-related charges.

Millennials may have initially been the primary target for digital banking services, but we must bust the myth that they're the only ones craving innovation.

Barclays Plans Job Cuts in U.S. to Reduce Expenses; Blockchain Test Results

Financial institutions, at one time the central facilitators of payments, find themselves in a rapidly changing payment environment today and confronted by all the various competitive digital payment and money movement offerings that are available in the market and directed at their account holders.

The Current Expected Loss Credit model will help to quantify bankers' intuition and can be built with readily available data.

International money transfers have not enjoyed the improvements in transparency and cost that are benefiting other products. That must change to move the remittance market forward.