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One woman on the all-male management board is not too much to ask, especially if it can take two years (or 20?) to get there, Deutsche Bank decides; Goldman, Morgan Stanley and Citi try mending their leaky pipeline, with some success (but sadly, 100 more years of this is what we're looking at, ladies); also get updates on Mary Jo White, Sallie Krawcheck and WomenCorporateDirectors.

As men and women in banking work toward achieving workplace equality for all, it's important to remember that women can also cultivate opportunities in their individual careers.

Wall Street Journal With the EMV liability shift to merchants going into effect Thursday, First Niagara Financial Group is bucking expectations and will roll out chip-enabled credit and debit cards that require customers to use a personal identification number rather than a signature. In the lead up to the liability shift, the card industry has chosen chip-and-signature as its standard, despite concerns that having the chip alone does little to curb card fraud. In instituting chip-and-PINÂ...

Many card issuers are well on their way to the migration to chip cards or have a plan to do so. But many merchants are still completely unaware of the shift in fraud liability taking effect Thursday.

Allowing branch employees to become personally involved in marketing and merchandising tends to make them more engaged as salespeople.