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In a term often reserved for interior design, women's fashions or ballroom dancing, Apple Pay users call the mobile pay system "elegant" because of how easy it is to use.

The CFPB's "Safe Student Banking" initiative is designed to pressure students' educational and financial institutions into offering young people narrow options.

Bank managers can motivate their teams to make sales without forcing them to pounce on customers the moment they walk in the door.

There is a lot of confusion in the retail industry around payments and Point-of-Sale (POS).

Revising the current control rules could give banks access to more capital from private equity, hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Banks victimized by loan fraud, identity theft, embezzlement and other crimes may be reluctant to cooperate with federal authorities. But it's often worth their while.

While consumers have a slew of digital technologies to help manage nearly every aspect of their finances, businesses still depend on manual paper-based processes to perform the most basic business functions.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

Two Republican legislators have suggested that affordable housing funding should be put on hold until Congress finally decides what to do about Fannie and Freddie. But why give Congress another six years to fiddle around with housing finance while the poor and homeless face a declining level of government housing assistance?

In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies need to be able to conduct business in real-time, regardless of the location of their trading partners.