BankThink

While face-to-face interactions may be nowhere near the most common banking transaction these days, they continue to have an inordinate influence on how customers think and feel about a bank. We cannot afford to waste them.

Let's be cautious about scrapping the Camels rating system without fully understanding why it supposedly failed. Any human endeavor is prone to failure, as any system is subject to improvement.

Brown-Vitter is a welcome display of bipartisanship. But its proposed solution to “too big to fail,” equity capital, is only marginally effective in imposing discipline on management.

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Systemically Important: The Financial Stability Oversight Council took an important step toward implementing a key provision of Dodd-Frank when it voted on a proposal to designate a group of nonbank financial firms as systemically important on Monday. FSOC isn't saying what companies made the list just yet, but AIG, Prudential and GE Capital have disclosed that they received the designations. These firms now have 30 days to fight the proposal. Per reports,...

American Banker Magazine's recent article on the Small Business Administration's Karen Mills was quite a love-fest. Here's the other side of the story that would be good for the public to hear.