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The courts would not be getting involved in defining the reach of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau if the architects of the agency had instituted a commission to oversee it.

When you make a payment on a website using a HTTPS connection, Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption is what makes your payment transfer over the public internet secure. Unfortunately, it's riddled with security flaws.

What does a chief culture officer do? Though this is an uncommon title in banking, it is starting to pop up in more executive suites. Here’s why one bank sees the role as an important factor in its effort to excel.

The core problem with the living wills, as with other tools in the Dodd-Frank Act to end “too big to fail,” is that they are by definition an attempt at predicting future events.

Recent prosecutions against lenders accused of usury violations will test the government's use of a law more commonly known in organized crime cases.

The breach experienced by Mossack Fonseca did more than expose sensitive tax documents for global figures in politics and business. It's also a warning sign for any company that manages large amounts of financial and transaction data.

Long before daily talk of fintech, blockchain and APIs, the number of U.S. banking customers who used at-home services once amounted to the population of a small suburb.

Muriel Siebert once said each woman has to fight a different fight for the greater progress of women. Putting a woman on the new $20 bill is surely progress, but it's also controversial. And there is still a tremendous gap with female bank CEOs, as well as architects and venture capitalists. Also, Sheila Bair and U.K. regulators talk about how to "fix" the financial system and why it doesn't necessarily require more work on the regulatory front.

We have been clear from the start that the date fixed by the card networks for liability shift was far too aggressive and essentially resulted in a Christmas present to card issuers.

The Paris Agreement on limiting the rise in global temperatures opens up new lending opportunities related to low-carbon projects while highlighting an array of new risks for financial institutions.