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The difference between board members with hands-on banking, compliance and technology knowledge and board members without can mean the difference between a bank's success and failure.

Our best chance to counter the government policies that caused the crisis (and continue to endanger the banking system) is, paradoxically, another distasteful state intrusion.

For many small and midsize banks, AML is all about compliance and getting through an examination without too many bruises. The means overshadow the ends.

Michael M. Bell, attorney and counselor with Howard & Howard, tells readers how to begin tackling the challenges of buying a bank.

Credit Union Journal's Frank J. Diekmann discusses co-op principles to cooperative endings.

Harry Stephens, president/CEO and founder of DATAMATX, explains how to "stamp out" the rising cost of postage and mailings.

Directors should recognize that appropriate professional behavior reinforced by a sense of belonging to a quality franchise constitutes a decisive competitive advantage.

If he supported size regulations on big banks, JPMorgan's CEO would help revamp his increasingly tarnished image and help put the entire financial industry on the path to redemption.

Yasmin Zarabi discusses steps financial institutions can take to prepare for social media compliance with impending regulation from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a bulletin on Thursday warning indirect auto lenders that they could be violating fair-lending laws if they do not stop auto dealers who often mark up the loans they issue.