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Cathy Bessant, chief operations and technology officer at Bank of America and American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Banking, quoted Stevie Nicks in saying women can be both ladies and legends.

The UBS executive discusses how a sudden, life-threatening illness changed her outlook on life and business.

Barbara Byrne, a lifetime achievement award winner, says the pace of adding diversity to C-suites must increase quickly.

Readers weigh in on infighting at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, react to a push for open banking in the United States, consider small-dollar bank loans and more.

Mack, Wells Fargo's head of consumer banking, shares the story of the listening tour she went on and the bank's path forward.

The Community Bank Sentiment Index, an outgrowth of a yearly survey conducted by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, is intended to bring attention to market conditions and how they affect small banks' growth prospects.

The agency alleges that some customers made payments to the e-commerce group even though their accounts had already been sold to third-party debt buyers.

Wirecard is partnering with Visa in Romania on a white-label digital wallet service enabling any card issuer to offer mobile contactless payment solutions through a wallet featuring card controls and account notifications.

Glassbox, a digital customer management company based in London, allows banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to use data and analytics to study customers' behavior.

A paper released by the agency’s Center for Financial Research says aspects of someone’s digital footprint — including whether they use Apple or Android — help predict likelihood of default.

The technology arms race among payment fintechs is converging on the market for credit and loans, with Square rolling out an installment payment option for consumers that complements its merchant capital option for sellers.

The central bank’s top regulatory official discussed how the Fed is using listening sessions in isolated communities to understand the effect of losing the one bank in town.

The 2018 Most Powerful Women in Banking festivities kicked off Wednesday night with cocktails and conversation at the Alley Cat Amateur Theater in New York's Financial District.

PayPal launched a new merchant app called PayPal for Business, aimed at driving usage and adoption of its invoicing and payments services among freelance workers and small businesses in India.

Rising wages and savings rates resulted in a decline in past-due payments in the second quarter, the American Bankers Association said in its quarterly report on delinquency trends in consumer lending.

The former banking lawyer, who went on to run major business lines at Merrill Lynch and UBS, will be honored Thursday at American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking gala.

Square Inc. is offering loans to customers to pay for goods and services from merchants that use its payments platform, another move by the company to push deeper into financial services.

Credit unions would not be impacted by the proposal, but the movement has spent much of the last decade telling lawmakers and regulators CUs are being punished for the actions of big banks that led to the financial crisis.

The trade group says credit unions will have access to a variety of state and federal resources.

The 22-year Bank of America vet loves digging into the company's financials and finding ways to simplify cumbersome processes. “The work is demanding. It can be deeply analytical in that you have to take the complex and make it simple.”