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Banks Beef Up Cybersecurity; Can We Trust Europe's Stress Tests?

Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover have placed a timeline for U.S. EMV adoption, in the form of liability shifts, which has elevated chip card migration from conceptual to imminent.

U.S. companies should aim to have women occupy half of all senior management positions by 2020, writes MUFG Union Bank's CEO.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

The financial industry is working to make payments better, more efficient, simpler — and faster. Many Americans are particularly invested in efforts to achieve this last improvement.

While a number of credit unions employ sophisticated models and tools to help pinpoint the most relevant products for each individual member, many others rely more on experience and intuition, augmented by readily available data such as member demographics.

But reading CU Journal West Coast Correspondent Michael Bartlett's coverage of Earvin "Magic" Johnson's session at the California and Nevada CU Leagues' annual meetin, I was pleasantly surprised.

Instead of trying to stop companies from offering payday loans and check cashing services to lower-income households, we should encourage more competitors — including banks — to enter this space.

Stress Tests to Get Tough on Leveraged Loans; QRM Rule Bashed

As the iPhone 6 makes its way into the hands of consumers, the way we pay may be changed forever.