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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.

Banks are upgrading their top executives' office space thanks to the record-low rate environment, the need for more room spurred by their rapid growth and the chance to grab the naming rights on high-profile buildings.Related Article: Suite Deals: Slow Economy Aids Banks' Office Space Projects

Nowadays, financial innovators are focused on digital payment platforms and alternative currencies, but coins were once revolutionary. American Banker takes a look at some of the more noteworthy advancements in the evolution of financial services, using the World Economic Forum's recent report "Rethinking Financial Innovation" as a guide.

Topping this year's list of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking are Irene Dorner, Beth Mooney, Karen Peetz, Ellen Alemany and Pamela Joseph.

These leaders, some just emerging and others vets in new roles, are women worth keeping an eye on in the banking and finance sectors. Avid Modjtabai tops this year's list, with Sallie Krawcheck right behind.

Across asset management, investment banking, capital markets and cards, these finance executives are helping to create a path to parity for women in a traditionally male-dominated field.

Mobile wallets promise simpler payments, but the road to get there has been bumpy and, quite often, bizarre.

Is YouTube about to out-Google Google? The best Tweets this week ran a gamut from the future of search engines to getting a return on investment on social media.

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.

The former chairman and CEO of BB&T uses his new book, "The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure," to lay blame for the financial crisis in 2008. While he does reserve some criticism for bankers, Allison directs most of his ire toward regulators, polticos and a culture of inept policymaking in Washington.

Former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair was always known for speaking her mind, even when she ran the agency from 2006 to 2011. But in her new book Bull by the Horns," an excerpt of which was featured on Fortune last week, Bair offers a very candid commentary about what she actually thought of the executives running the nation's largest banks during the financial crisis. Following is a small sampling of those views, based on the excerpt, which detailed the fateful meeting in 2008 when the Treasury Department forced the largest banks to accept $25 billion in capital.

These days it seems like everyone is a payments company, whether their primary business is selling coffee or coupons. Wherever they come from, they're challenging the very structure of this industry.

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.

Brevity is the soul of wit — and sometimes fintech news. With that in mind, Bank Technology News (@BankTechNews) will run a weekly roundup of our favorite financial services-related tweets.

Tim Pawlenty is hardly the first prominent politician to turn into a bank lobbyist. Indeed, there's a long line of them.

Several well-known U.S. banks and credit card companies call themselves "global." During a two-week vacation in Thailand, an American Banker editor put their claims to the test.

Just about every major challenge facing bankers was referenced in American Banker's second Regulatory Symposium, including Basel III, the Volcker Rule, and new CFPB rules. Speakers, including the two top leaders at the FDIC, PNC's Jim Rohr, Rep. Scott Garrett and the Treasury Department's Mary Miller, weighed in with meaty remarks. Following is a list of the top stories from the conference:

Beyond serving as the launch pad for more than 60 fintech products and services, FinovateFall, the two-day event held in Manhattan last week, got fintechies to tweet their hearts out about the presenters, their offerings and the temperature of the conference center. Here are our top 10 favorite tweets from the innovation conference:

American Banker asked readers for their takes on the Federal Reserve's plan to buy an unlimited amount of mortgage securities until jobs rebound and keep rates near zero through mid-2015. Here are some of their reactions.

Apple has — yet again — left payments out when it designed its newest iPhone, despite numerous indications that it explored using Near Field Communication technology to create a mobile wallet. Apple had many good reasons to choose the course it did.