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The Card Fraud Blame Game: The switch to chip-enabled cards should be pretty smooth for the average consumer, according to the New York Times. While it may be jarring to dip rather than swipe cards at retailers' payment terminals, the gesture should be old hat soon enough. The paper also raises the question of whether chip cards would be more effective at preventing fraud if customers were simultaneously required to enter four-digit...

Research suggests that women in male-dominated fields like banking and finance often worried about encountering gender stereotypes. This makes them less satisfied in their jobs and more likely to quit.

Modified executive compensation plans can encourage bank chiefs to make prudent business decisions rather than chasing short-term profits.

Receiving Wide Coverage ... Another Day, Another Probe: Swiss regulators are investigating whether seven banks worked together to manipulate precious-metals trading prices. The banks under investigation by the Swiss regulator WEKO are UBS, Julius Baer Group, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Mitsui. Similar probes have already been put underway by U.S. and European Union regulators. Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times. Wall Street Journal Â...

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week, including how postal banking could help low-income people in the U.S. and the continuing debate over interchange fees.