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Jamie Dimon reshuffled his top lieutenants last week. Here's who switched chairs, and who stayed put, in the latest JPMorgan Chase executive overhaul.

The benefits of labor arbitrage are going away and banks are bringing work to stateside outsourcing providers, for several reasons, says Harley Lippman, CEO of IT staffing firm Genesis10.

The Olympics and other attractions are not just proving grounds for athletes — stadiums, amusement parks and concert halls provide the perfect conditions to test new payment technologies.

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.

A brand consultant recently suggested that more banks could put the financial crisis behind them simply by developing new logos and brands. Here are a few financial institutions that have reinvented themselves in recent years.

Add Sandy Weill to the list of industry grandees who want to dismantle financial behemoths. In an appearance on CNBC Wednesday, the former Citigroup chief executive declared that we should probably "go and split up investment banking from banking…have banks do something that's not going to risk the taxpayer dollars." It hardly needs to be said that that is a dramatic reversal for the man widely credited with tearing down Glass Steagall. (He denies that — he says he was just an insurance guy who teamed up with Citicorp long after commercial banks had begun to punch holes through the wall separating them from the securities business). Here is our updated roster of bankers, regulators, policymakers looking to dismember Wall Street as we know it.

It was an insanely busy week in Washington last week, as the CFPB took its first enforcement action, regulators finally designated nonbank systemically important companies and Dodd-Frank turned two. Here were the stories you shouldn't miss:

Visa and MasterCard repeatedly have been targets of legal actions and legislation over their policies. It has cost them and their issuers billions over the years in settlements and lost revenue.

Many high-tech approaches to payments are short-lived. A lucky few get a second chance to disrupt the market.

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.

It's been rough going for banks lately in their dealings with regulators, lawyers and the public. From JPMorgan Chase's London Whale to Montgomery Bank & Trust's missing director, the negative news keeps piling up. Following are 10 American Banker stories from July indicating that, if anything, the industry's already troubled reputation is getting more tarnished by the day.

The consensus around Friday's landmark credit card deal between retailers, Visa and MasterCard is there is no consensus. Click through for immediate - and often conflicting - reactions from bankers, retailers and informed observers.

Many of the biggest banks have hiked their checking account fees in recent months. But others have held steady, and some have even changed their minds and lowered prices. Click through for examples.

Visa and MasterCard repeatedly have been targets of legal actions and legislation over their policies. It has cost them and their issuers billions over the years in settlements and lost revenue.

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.

Student ID cards that double as debit or prepaid cards are a growth area for U.S. banks and other financial companies. And competition is heating up.

John Allison, the former chairman and CEO of BB&T, recently agreed to become the president and CEO of the Cato Institute, a leading libertarian think tank. He joins a growing list of former bank executives who are trying their hand at something totally unrelated to banking.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau spent the past 12 months in rapid motion establishing the first regulatory regime devoted to looking out for financial institution customers.

Bankers, regulators and non-profit executives last month debated how best to serve poor and other underbanked consumers. Click through to see who was the most passionate - and obsessive - at the Underbanked Financial Services Forum.

The FDIC is backing away from covering losses, Countrywide's VIP program benefits members of Congress, an 'abusive' practice is defined, nine of the largest banks detail how to take them apart if they fail, and the OCC releases a report detailing every risk facing banks. Here are the Top 5 Washington stories last week.