BankThink

A recent court ruling affirms that customers can be held responsible in cases of wire transfer fraud. But banks aren’t off the hook.

Is misogynistic behavior keeping women out of the Bitcoin community?

Ex-Im Fight Heats Up on Hill; Good and Bad in New Housing Data

Hundreds of thousands of people are in Brazil for the World Cup football tournament. While Brazil poses risks for payment crime, there are things payment companies and issuers can do to help their customers mitigate danger, such as communicating preventative measures.

It’s true that AIG’s heavily regulated securities lending program played a role in the downfall of the insurer. But it is a dangerous fallacy to argue that this proves that regulation should be left entirely to the markets.

On one hand, bills supporting deregulation are garnering legislative support. On the other, a number of high-profile members of Congress have spoken out in favor of stricter rule enforcement and prosecution.

Costs of Climate Change; Barofsky's New Watchdog Gig?

Banks can boost productivity with a number of counter-intuitive practices. For starters, they can let customers wait in line for a little while.

The recent proposal for the U.S. Postal Service to sell banking services invites comparisons to Walmart's equally controversial, and ultimately abandoned, 2005 bid for a banking charter. Both would-be financial industry game-changers are large and ubiquitous, but there are some notable differences.

Under-35 consumers find more value in retailers’ loyalty programs than they do deposit accounts, and it’s up to banks to figure out how to capitalize on that transaction-first mindset.