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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's chief is on his way out. Banks may soon be hearing a lot more from this agency than they have in the last few years.

Banks received two years to bring automated teller machines into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. As soon as the deadline passed, plaintiffs' lawyers pounced on the stragglers.

Kip Weissman, partner with law firm Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick in Washington, says handful of shareholder spats around the country shows how more insurgent investors in small banks are "looking for a sale" to "make a nice return."

The growing challenges that bankers face amid a fast-changing technological and regulatory landscape were the focus of CEB TowerGroup's annual conference in Boston last week.

Los Angeles firm Litigation Compliance Law Center shows how attorneys and mortgage brokers are working to get around the sprit, if not the intent, of regulations designed to protect troubled homeowners.

"The future is going to be no one company is going to own digital payments and digital commerce," says Dan Schulman, group president of enterprise growth at American Express, who has met with more than 300 mobile commerce companies in Silicon Valley. "It's going to be a combination of financial services companies, wireless companies, software companies, retailers coming together to think about, how do we offer a better experience for the consumer in this commerce lifecycle."