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This tiny Florida bank says APIs could make it a national player

06/30/17

With a new core system, Surety Bank plans to connect with customers outside of its geographic market.

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Digital identity profession (yes, it is one) now has a guild

06/30/17

Enabling peers to compare notes will help ID management specialists at regional, midtier banks who face the same requirements as large banks but command smaller operating budgets, IDPro’s founder says.

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Is your AI racist? A lawmaker wants to know

06/30/17

The promise of fintech is that it might offer underbanked consumers access to financial products. But some are worried that relying on algorithms to make credit decisions could open up problems of its own.

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Why this once-skeptical banker is now sold on new loan-loss rule

06/30/17

Timothy Zimmerman, who once called CECL a dangerous proposal, now sees a justification for the FASB standard. And he is urging bankers to start working on plans to comply with the change.

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You already bank the pot industry. You just don’t know it

06/30/17

It may be a bigger challenge than financial institutions realize to avoid the cannabis sector, which includes a whole host of ancillary businesses from agricultural supply sellers to real estate developers.

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‘Hogs get slaughtered’: Comments of week

06/30/17

Readers criticized a credit union securitization proposal, weighed in on scaling back the CFPB’s complaint database, debated the need for banks to examine gender-based salary comparisons, and more.

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Bank stocks surge; Capital One left out

06/30/17

Investors drive up bank stocks on the promise of fatter dividends; Capital One bucks the trend on concerns over credit cards and auto loans.

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Ron Suber steps down as Prosper’s president

06/29/17

The move comes at a time when both Prosper and the broader industry it helped to pioneer are struggling.

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The iPhone's imprint on banking

06/29/17

The iPhone is 10 years old. Here’s a look at some of the ways it, along with the boom of smartphones overall, have shaped banking in the U.S. over the last decade.

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Will stress test triumphs usher in new era of M&A?

06/29/17

Higher dividends and more aggressive repurchase programs are bound to attract more investors, which could boost stock prices and prompt more dealmaking, analysts said.

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