‘Diversity is not a buzzword’ at women in banking gala

10/06/17

Executives from across the industry celebrated gender diversity Thursday evening at American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance dinner in New York.

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First BanCorp in Puerto Rico freed from post-crisis regulatory order

10/06/17

The company, which is still recovering from two recent hurricanes, said it will voluntary comply with several key restrictions that were in the 2010 written agreement.

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With foreign competition, will U.S. core vendors finally step it up?

10/06/17

The big four core vendors have had little incentive to innovate in recent years. But newer competition will force them to update their technology if they wish to survive the digital age.

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'Diversity is the fabric of our being': TD Bank's Verba

10/06/17

Linda Verba, head of service strategy at TD Bank and winner of a lifetime achievement award at the Most Powerful Women in Banking dinner Thursday, said that diversity can not just be a buzzword.

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'I go to work to change the world': BofA's Bessant

10/06/17

Cathy Bessant, the winner of American Banker's most powerful woman in banking, talks about the "nobility" of banking and how the business helps to change people's lives.

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Women in Banking: On IQ, EQ and the LQ

10/06/17

JPMorgan's Mary Callahan Erdoes outlines the secret to motivating employees that she learned from businessman Jack Ma.

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Wells Fargo directors ordered to defend lawsuit on fake accounts

10/05/17

Wells Fargo executives and directors accused of steering the bank into the worst scandal of its modern history were ordered to defend a lawsuit accusing them of profiting from the creation of millions of fake customer accounts.

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Will regtech kill bank jobs?

10/05/17

It's a question many banks are already confronting head-on as they implement new technologies designed to make compliance easier.

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Calif. bars financial firms from imposing mandatory arbitration

10/05/17

Wells Fargo's home state of California passed a law aimed at curtailing the bank's use of closed-door arbitration to shroud complaints from aggrieved customers affected by its scandals.

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As CFPB closes door on payday, OCC opens one for deposit advance

10/05/17

The world of short-term lending was shaken up Thursday as one regulator issued a rule cracking down on payday loans while another made it easier for banks to offer an alternative product.

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