Data Sets

It's awards season and consulting firm Corporate Insight recently rolled out the proverbial red carpet for its tenth annual Bank Monitor Awards, which honor banks with gold, silver or bronze medals for their online banking features. The banks are compared to a baseline developed by the firm, not with each other, so more than one bank can qualify for each medal in each category. Bank of America led the pack with four gold medals.

Financial malware resurged and mobile wallets were busted open in the big security stories in the week through Feb. 16.

A quick look at policies, fee revenues and agency budgets in the administration's 2013 proposal - and how it all affects banks.

Banks seem eager to move unwanted assets off the books. Though single-family homes garner most of the headlines, banks are also attempting to sell other types of collateral at bargain-rate prices. In some ways, it looks like a yard sale. Here are a few examples of the assets that banks are peddling online.

Google Wallet is one of the most prominent mobile payment systems in use today, but it has suffered from security problems since day one.

Google Wallet is one of the most prominent mobile payment systems in use today, but it has suffered from security problems since day one.

The $25 billion pact announced between state and federal officials and the top five mortgage servicers has spurred a dizzying range of opinions and explanations.

Google Wallet's security again comes under scrutiny, and the card networks step up their offerings in the big security stories in the week through Feb. 9.

A celebrity's name on a prepaid card has been more of a scarlet letter than a ticket to success. But celeb cards are still popular enough to be a threat to traditional banks.

Chip-and-PIN cards and their contactless counterparts were under a microscope in the big security stories of the week through Feb. 2.

Industry execs spent the past month grousing about fourth-quarter results while expressing conflicting views on M&A and banking’s future.

Jan. 20 to Jan. 26: Hacking into cameras and smartphones to steal bank data; financial fraud volume rises; and more.

Jan. 13 — Jan. 19: Visa pushes back on PIN for chip cards; what a shoe retailer's breach says about the state of data security; and more.

A warning about Zeus malware; banks consider teamwork in the fight against fraud; an alleged ID-theft ring with low-tech methods gets busted; and more.

It was a bad year for bank stocks, but some bucked the trend. Here are the top six performers in the KBW Bank Index.

It was a bad year for the KBW Bank Index. Here are the six names that led the way down.

The year just ending was a rough one for banks. From new regulatory burdens, to legal woes to the high cost of doing business, the bumps along the way are graphically illustrated in American Banker's most popular stories of 2011. Following are the top 10, in ascending order as measure by page views through midday on December 27.

When are banks going to start lending again? In 2011, it turns out, though the growth was exclusively in business loans as real estate and consumer portfolios continued to shrink.