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When it comes to the speed of payments, consumers used to be satisfied with just real-time confirmation of a person-to-person (P2P) transaction and the promise that funds were on their way. This isn’t necessarily the case anymore, and the social implications associated with payments are driving the shift in demand.

The idea that restricted access to loans for poor-credit borrowers is unequivocally a bad thing is based on industry talking points that don't stand up to real-world scrutiny.

Instant Apps could give banks a better option for transitioning customers from a quick and easy account opening to a more robust banking experience.

How can banks benefit from a spurt of mobile payments innovation that is enabling faster checkouts with the advantage of greater security for customers?

In addition to credit risk from leveraged loans and other types of assets, an added worry for participations is how they would be treated in a failure of the originating bank.

Well before the mobile payments explosion, incumbents were already focused on how to respond to nonbanks "piggybacking" on banks' payments infrastructure. As the consultant behind a 1994 banking industry report on the threat put it, "there is no time for delay."

The fight between Visa and Walmart over authenticating chip cards could have a negative outcome for everyone involved, regardless of which side wins.

With what may be as little six months to get anything done on a politically split two-person board, Metsger has moved quickly to solidify his position.

Sexism is less blatant than in the "Boom-Boom Room" era, but women aren't yet treated like equals at the male-dominated Wall Street firms. A community bank CEO takes a contrarian approach to underperforming branches, staffing up instead of closing them down, and Bank of the West embeds star employees at nonprofits as leadership training. Also, FinCEN's Jennifer Shasky Calvery in her final congressional hearing, a swipe at Brexit sexism, and is the fact that uniforms are going out of fashion a good thing for gender equality?

In the ongoing melee between the two major players, strong authentication has been put on the backburner in favor of the respective economies of implementing chip card technology.