To ignore Gen Z is ‘to flirt with irrelevance’: Wells Fargo exec

12/09/19

Businesses need to shift focus away from millennials and toward the next age group, which is expected to be so demanding that business processes will have to be overhauled, says Julia Carreon, the bank's managing director of digital and fiduciary operations.

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Paul Volcker's impact on banks was bigger than just one rule

12/09/19

Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker is now synonymous with a provision of the Dodd-Frank law. But his legacy extends well beyond that.

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OCC flags risks from banks' tech overhaul, Libor transition

12/09/19

The agency’s semiannual report warned institutions to be mindful of operational risks from the innovation in core banking systems, and detailed supervisory steps to monitor the adoption of a new reference rate.

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Big tech banking plans may pose risk to financial stability: FSB

12/09/19

The international regulatory group said that despite some benefits from tech firms' incursion, the companies' efforts may present operational and disruption risks.

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One bank’s move to embrace transgender consumers

12/09/19

BMO Harris Bank in Chicago recently became the first financial institution to offer a Mastercard that allows transgender and nonbinary people to use their preferred names. Members of that community often experience disproportionate financial hardship, in part because of employment discrimination.

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Libra: The opening act of a modern regulatory drama

12/09/19

Facebook’s stablecoin initiative has inspired countless ideas about how to put fintech under the control of federal regulators. Here are the most critical questions.

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Repo blowup was fueled by big banks and hedge funds, BIS Says

12/09/19

The market was upended because the largest banks hold more liquid assets in Treasuries than at the Fed, limiting their ability to supply repo funding on short notice, according to a new analysis from the Bank for International Settlements.

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Paul Volcker, former Fed chairman who inspired bank risk rule, dies at 92

12/09/19

Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who broke the back of U.S. inflation in the 1980s and three decades later led President Barack Obama’s bid to rein in the investment risk-taking of commercial banks, has died.

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Goldman's small world; Bitcoin’s woes go beyond price

12/09/19

The bank may extend advisory service to clients with as little as $5,000 to invest; trading of the cryptocurrency has plunged.

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Truist rising: With megamerger done, pressure on to deliver

12/09/19

Cost cutting and systems integrations are short-term priorities, but over time CEO Kelly King and his heir apparent, Bill Rogers, will have to exploit the combined BB&T-SunTrust's revenue potential and prove the biggest post-crisis merger was a good idea.

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