PayThink

Let's face it: Thanks to the politics associated with reform of the government-sponsored enterprises since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac entered conservatorship in 2008, major structural change in the secondary mortgage market is unlikely to occur anytime soon.

Up until about a year ago if you were a CU marketer and you were in need of a campaign idea, if all else failed you could always fall back on Mr. Dependable, the refi campaign.

Confusion over regulatory jurisdiction and burdensome compliance costs are cutting into community banks' profits and forcing them to consolidate. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Financial pundits weigh in on questions raised and conclusions drawn from Bank of America's capital mistake, in tweets.

For a technology still in the midst of evolving, mobile payments attract an overwhelming amount of interest. Competition between payment systems is intense — as the Wall Street Journal recently noted, AngelList’s mobile payments startup roster includes more than 640 players.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. claims that reports of the impending death of community banks are greatly exaggerated. Historical data tells a different story.

Banks looking to build productive, lean-staffed branches should ensure that their work culture rewards positive employee attitudes.

Big banks' alleged manipulation of Libor may have been unethical, but the FDIC faces long odds in proving that their actions caused community banks to fail.

Banks should not expect customers to cough up their data if there isn’t something in it for them.

The U.S. is roughly two years into its migration to chip payments, but in the last few months I have seen the tide turn and this migration start to really pick up speed. But before I talk about where we are now, it’s important to understand where we have been and how we have arrived here.