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While waiting for regulators to fully understand the effects, small banks should proactively take measures to prepare themselves from the Volcker rule, just like their larger counterparts.
February 10
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The U.S. Postal Service offering financial services to the underserved would be a great idea. If the U.S. Postal Service weren't, you know, the U.S. Postal Service.
February 10
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Every couple weeks a new group of mainstream merchants and payments providers begins accepting Bitcoin, the popular and often controversial digital currency.
February 10
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A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.
February 7 -
The scene: A television studio in Culver City, Calif.
February 7 -
New technology from Apple and others can help banks create appointments, share offers, crowdsource customer service and identify their best customers, all in real time.
February 7 -
Understanding consumer credit card spending habits has been difficult historically.
February 7 -
Money market funds possess trillions of dollars of short-term institutional investor funds. Now the SECs proposed rule change for the industry may give banks an opportunity to attract institutional depositors with cash management offerings.
February 6 -
Community banks exist to serve their customers and communities, not efficiency ratio-obsessed market observers.
February 6 -
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has signaled that more changes for the leverage ratio, risk weights, and Pillar III will (eventually) be implemented. But it has yet to address operational risk and data collection issues.
February 5
