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Embracing technology that gives innovators access to their platforms will provide banks with the upgrade they sorely need.

It's tough enough for people to rise to the top once in life. Getting there twice is harder still. Here are some notable examples of executives from that select, latter group.

The $654 million-asset bank said in a press release Monday that it had reorganized under OP Bancorp after receiving approval from shareholders and regulators.

HBO's Last Week Tonight on Sunday took a detailed look at the business of debt collection and debt buying, then forgave nearly $15 million in medical debt.

Two debt buyers have entered into consent judgments with the New York Department of Financial Services for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and New York Debt Collection Procedures Law.

The Federal Reserve has made clear that higher rates are more a question of when, not if, but banks should let go of rate hikes being anything like they were under Alan Greenspan.

Junior Banker Focus; Fintech Regulation Vacuum

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift, has the ability to oversee security on its network and demand far more of its members to coordinate those efforts. But its current structure may not be the best suited to do that.

To account for the heightened questioning and investigations around the Panama Papers hack, people need to “legal-up” and issuers, financial institutions and processors need to “gear-up” for expected spikes in work related to due diligence, more precise monitoring of transactions, payments and sanctions filtering, possible ad-hoc examination and possible fines.