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A selection of images featuring credit unions’ efforts in their communities.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

As bank bosses sent out their annual shareholder letters in recent weeks, two themes dominated: The challenges of operating in an increasingly regulated, low interest rate world; and the desire to assure investors that they're putting safety first. Following are some notable quotes from around the industry.

The most notable quotes from American Banker stories of the previous week. Readers are encouraged to add their own observations in the Comments fields at the bottom of each slide.

Shareholders and regulators are on the warpath against executive compensation they regard as excessive or poorly structured. Senior bankers and directors, like their colleagues elsewhere in the corporate world, are struggling to design pay plans that encourage managers to innovate while discouraging excessive risk-taking. Further complicating the task are the sometimes competing agendas of investors and rule-makers, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the many Dodd-Frank pay rules yet to be written. Following is a look at some of hot-button items shaping executive compensation during the current proxy season.

A selection of images featuring credit unions’ efforts in their communities.

Canada is presenting many opportunities to the payments companies operating within its borders and in the U.S. Here are some of the most recent examples.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

Most annual meetings take place at corporate offices, hotels or country clubs. Here is a list of some of the most unusual venues for this year's slate of shareholder meetings.

The most notable quotes from American Banker stories of the previous week. Readers are encouraged to add their own observations in the Comments fields at the bottom of each slide.

Median pay for CEOs at banks with less than $20 billion of assets was about a tenth of the median amount for bosses at banks with more than $100 billion of assets in American Banker's 2013 compensation survey. Growth in pay from 2011 was about even between the two groups, however. Here are some of the most richly rewarded chiefs among the smaller banks. Ratings of the banks' pay practices, on a scale from A to F, are provided by GMI Ratings, a governance watchdog. Figures are for 2012; GMI assessments are as of April 29.

CEO pay rose a median 11% in 2012 among a group of 149 banks. Here are some of the most highly paid bank bosses of the year. Ratings of the banks' pay practices, on a scale from A to F, are provided by GMI Ratings, a governance watchdog. Figures are for 2012; GMI assessments are as of April 29.

We've profiled six bankers who raise the act of connecting with their communities to an art form. They are from different institutions in different parts of the country, and each has a different story.

A selection of images featuring credit unions’ efforts in their communities.

As mobile payments companies seek a receptive audience, many are turning their attention to restaurants. And the food industry, in turn, is increasingly receptive to putting mobile payments on their menu.

This week hundreds of bankers and vendors descended on Boston for CEB TowerGroup's annual conference. American Banker's Sean Sposito was there covering issues of fraud and bank tech.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

Disappointments, turnarounds and shocking comments -- banks offered plenty of them in their first-quarter results and executive conference calls.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a bundle of rules designed to protect consumers involved in everything from auto loans and money transfers to mortgages. Some of those protections will result in higher costs for the very people they're designed to protect. Behind the trend: financial institutions that are passing along the cost of complying with new regulatory burdens or are pulling out of certain markets altogether.

Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, officially unveiled their bill to rein in the large banks on Wednesday, making several critical changes from a draft obtained by the media earlier this month. Following are the key elements of the Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act.