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Small banks get a vehicle for regulatory relief in the Senate

05/26/17

A bipartisan group of senators want more community banks to get relief from Dodd-Frank capital requirements.

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Peapack-Gladstone to buy asset manager in its backyard

05/26/17

Murphy Capital Management in Gladstone, N.J., focuses on high-net-worth individuals, businesses and nonprofits.

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People still don’t get community banks. Let’s help them understand

05/26/17

Bankers have conversations daily with clients, public officials and friends who don’t necessarily see the benefits that banking locally provides.

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7 ways top women execs persist and prosper in a challenging market

05/26/17

From better understanding consumer priorities to expertly managing career advancement, here's a look at key success strategies that female financial services executives shared at the Most Powerful Women in Banking LEAD Conference.

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CFPB seen as likely to win constitutional case

05/26/17

A federal appeals court appears to be leaning toward a ruling in favor of the CFPB in a case about its single-director structure.

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This is how financial services chatbots are going to evolve

05/26/17

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

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What the Fed giveth, the Fed taketh away

05/26/17

Thanks to the Federal Reserve's unwinding of post-crisis policies, the next wave of mergers will be driven in part by a drop in deposits.

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'Costs are costs': Comments of week

05/26/17

Readers weigh in on a proposal for encouraging small bank installment loans, a firm that uses AI to reduce false alarms, what security improvements are needed for sharing customer data, and more.

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Bitcoin frenzy continues; broker bonus battle

05/26/17

The price of bitcoin continues to rise in volatile trading; Wells Fargo, still reeling from its phony accounts scandal, is boosting signing bonuses for brokers just as competitors decrease theirs.

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The slow remaking of the taxi-medallion loan market

05/25/17

Amid all the bad news this year among taxi-medallion lenders, banks are trying to renegotiate loan terms behind the scenes, and regulatory changes could prop up collateral values and the competitiveness of taxis.

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