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A bill scheduled for a House vote Tuesday afternoon, designed to help Somali-Americans send money home, highlights the longstanding tension between anti-money laundering regulations and global financial inclusion.

Read alone, a recent report from the CFPB might suggest that arbitration clauses in banking contracts could disadvantage consumers, but it was only a preliminary look that failed to paint a complete picture of arbitration's costs and benefits.

AG Holder Says No Bank 'Too Big to Jail'

Regulators are seeking to limit risky behavior. Shareholders are intent on paying for performance. The result in 2013 was modest gains for bank CEOs and a shift to long-term payouts.

Bankers provide customers with a huge range of services free of charge. If banks want to compensate for the rising cost of those services, that's got to change.

Target CEO Resigns; Banks Detail Sanctions Against Russia

Fraud schemes are constantly changing, as criminals exploit new channels and methods of perpetrating their crimes. It is the ultimate game of whack-a-mole; stamp it out in one place, and it pops up somewhere else.

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

Are you passionate about credit unions? Do you feel strongly about where the community is moving? Credit Union Journal wants to hear from you — and now it's easier than ever to be heard.

There are enough studies quantifying the subsidies that too-big-to-fail banks receive. The focus should now be on the other benefits that keep big banks too large to manage, supervise or even jail.