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Sexism is less blatant than in the "Boom-Boom Room" era, but women aren't yet treated like equals at the male-dominated Wall Street firms. A community bank CEO takes a contrarian approach to underperforming branches, staffing up instead of closing them down, and Bank of the West embeds star employees at nonprofits as leadership training. Also, FinCEN's Jennifer Shasky Calvery in her final congressional hearing, a swipe at Brexit sexism, and is the fact that uniforms are going out of fashion a good thing for gender equality?
May 26
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A number of banks have faced pressure from shareholders to ditch plurality voting, where directors can keep their seats even if they fail to receive majority support from investors.
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The Justice Department's effort to hold individual executives accountable for corporate wrongdoing could backfire by posing conflicts that discourage cooperation from companies, the country's biggest business lobby warned.
May 26 - PSO content
Investigators are examining possible computer breaches at as many as 12 banks linked to Swifts global payments network that have irregularities similar to those in the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank, according to a person familiar with the probe.
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Consumers, especially millennials, increasingly prefer to do everything on their mobile devices, including signing up for services. But as banks start to open accounts for people whom their employees have never met, there are plenty of questions about whether they can tell real customers and crooks apart.
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Homes owned by single men are more valuable and appreciate faster than properties owned by single women, according to an analysis from RealtyTrac.
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Investigators are examining possible computer breaches at as many as 12 banks linked to Swift's global payments network that have irregularities similar to those in the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank.
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Financial services technology provider FIS is providing UnionPay prepaid cards for U.S. consumers traveling to Asia.
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Consumers, banks and merchants all want faster payments, but new technology only seems to be making the process slower.
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PayPal next month will launch a new mobile app for its iOS and Android users, but anyone using the PayPal app designed for Windows Phone, BlackBerry or the Amazon Fire handset is out of luck.
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