ABI Blog Exchange

2017-01-13
People's United is taking its efforts to raise awareness of financial exploitation to a new level.

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2017-01-13
Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Ben Carson is open to finding alternatives to the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, but believes there must be some government backstop to the housing market.

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2017-01-13
Some vendors have begun offering authentication platforms through which biometrics and other authentication tools can be plugged into any or all channels. TD Bank is sold on this concept, but others are not completely sure.

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2017-01-13
American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. Comments are excerpted from reader responses to AmericanBanker.com articles, social media, and from around the web.

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2017-01-13
Mary Lynn Lenz shares some insight on M&A challenges and turnaround success, Sallie Krawcheck says Wall Street diversity can't get worse and Ginni Rometty explains why IBM bought Promontory.

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2017-01-13
The issue stemmed from how the company handled collateralized-loan obligations for calculating capital ratios.

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2017-01-13
First Internet Bancorp is the latest institution to enter the business or to significantly expand operations.

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2017-01-13
The company recently received Fed approval to increase its ownership in Carter to 9%.

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2017-01-13
An international regulatory body outlined a series of recommendations for reducing risks posed by the asset management industry, particularly increasing liquidity and reducing leverage posed by derivatives positions.

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2017-01-13
The Society for Worldwide Financial Telecommunication is exploring the potential of distributed ledger technology for banks to provide real-time reconciliation of their databases for accounts they hold in other banks in a foreign currency.

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2017-01-12
Kasisto, a provider of chatbots to banks, announced Thursday a $9.2 million Series A funding round led by Propel Venture Partners with participation from Mastercard and Commerce Ventures.

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2017-01-12
Any economic environment, including this one, has risks but it is unclear whether banks are sufficiently worried about what lies ahead.

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2017-01-12
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday warned about the risks of the online debt sales, alleging that sensitive personal and financial information is available in some instances to any visitor to a debt marketplace website.

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2017-01-12
Salisbury Bancorp in Lakeville, N.Y., has agreed to buy a branch from ES Bancshares in Newburgh.

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2017-01-12
Huron Community Financial Services in East Tawas, Mich., is getting ready to offer insurance products.

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2017-01-12
Financial innovation will stall unless we, as an industry, collaborate on a universal data gathering standard.

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2017-01-12
First Business in Wis. to consolidate bank charters-

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2017-01-12
Mnuchin to divest; fintech firms may be able to get bank charters

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2017-01-12
The U.K.-based firm has raised $373 million from investors since it was founded in 2010.

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