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NCUA Encourages Credit Unions Readiness for Hurricane Alex

Updated: 2010-06-30 21:24:08

The National Credit Union Administration is advising credit unions and credit union members in the potential path of Hurricane Alex to prepare for all contingencies, including the possible interruption of some credit union operations.

OCC Allows National Bank Offices Affected by Hurricane Alex to Close

Updated: 2010-06-30 21:24:08

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has issued a proclamation allowing national bank offices affected by Hurricane Alex to close at their discretion.

PLANNED - Websense Podcast

Updated: 2010-06-30 21:24:08

Websense

Funny Business: Why the Financial Reform Bill Has Become a Joke

Updated: 2010-06-30 19:18:16

The fight over financial reform has turned into a comedy of Marxian proportions. Groucho, that is.

Prepare for Careers in the Cloud

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:23:48

Now is the Time for IT Pros to Hone Business SkillsThe key to success is: Know which job opportunities are disappearing and which are opening.

Guy Kawasaki on the Power of Social Media

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:23:47

Entrepreneur Says Security, Privacy Concerns Are 'Massively Overblown'Entrepreneur says security, privacy concerns are 'massively overblown," and social media success requires tactics, not strategy.

Mortgage Fraud: How to Fight it

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:23:46

Experts Weigh in on How Institutions Can Stop SchemesIn separate interviews, attorney Tom Maxwell and Marcus Vander Wall of the NCUA discuss how banking institutions can fight back against mortgage fraud.

Mortgage Fraud Threats to Credit Unions

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:23:45

Interview with NCUA program officer Marcus Vander Wall on how credit unions limit mortgage fraud losses.

Customer control in the ATM world

Updated: 2010-06-30 10:25:27

I wanted to build on my earlier blogs about customers getting more control over their card transactions. I do think it’s a genuine trend, although I am conscious that the more you think about something, the more you tend to notice things which seem to support your argument, yet otherwise perhaps wouldn’t have caught your attention. [...]

Things worth reading: 30th June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-30 07:46:07

Who's afraid of HFT, HFT, HFT?

Updated: 2010-06-30 07:30:00

GAO: Results of Financial Audit of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Funds' 2009 and 2008 Financial Statements

Updated: 2010-06-29 21:22:51

In GAO's opinion, FDIC fairly presented, in all material respects, the 2009 and 2008 financial statements for the two funds it administers�DIF and FRF.

Federal Reserve to implement changes to Payment System Risk policy in early 2011

Updated: 2010-06-29 21:22:50

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that it will implement changes to its Payment System Risk (PSR) policy in early 2011. A specific implementation date will be announced at least 90 days in advance. In December 2008, the Board adopted revisions to the policy and said that the Federal Reserve would implement these changes between late 2010 and early 2011.

Y Viva Espana ... nein

Updated: 2010-06-29 10:04:00

Why Spanish banks are risky

Updated: 2010-06-29 10:01:11

Things worth reading: 29th June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-29 06:55:11

Why It's Crazy to Let Wall Street Control Derivative Exchanges

Updated: 2010-06-28 22:34:25

Here’s a dirty little secret of financial reform: Wall Street controls the clearinghouses that are supposed to bring order to derivatives...

England's rarest coin

Updated: 2010-06-28 07:28:00

Things worth reading: 28th June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-28 07:20:09

The Finanser's Week: 21st June - 27th June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-27 06:25:00

BankInfoSecurity Week in Review: June 26, 2010

Updated: 2010-06-26 08:12:48

A review of this week's top news items. ATM skimming and ACH fraud pose growing concerns.

Financial Reform: The View From the Cheap Seats

Updated: 2010-06-26 01:34:56

The wide range of reactions to the financial reform bill reflect a fundamental clash of ideas.

How Financial Reform Falls Short -- Way Short, In Some Cases

Updated: 2010-06-26 00:32:24

The new financial reform bill may not be enough to prevent a repeat of the 2007 banking crisis.

A SWIFT note on remittances

Updated: 2010-06-25 08:44:33

Things worth reading: 25th June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-25 07:12:53

Financial Reform: Ex-SEC Boss Arthur Levitt Tells it Like it Ain't

Updated: 2010-06-24 18:55:04

Former SEC chief Arthur Levitt omits one factor in explaining the need for financial reform: Wall Street.

Why banks should avoid the remittance markets

Updated: 2010-06-24 13:32:36

Why is there no global mobile remittance service?

Updated: 2010-06-24 05:29:39

Things worth reading: 24th June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-24 05:25:44

Banking in the Cloud

Updated: 2010-06-23 23:27:16

I have undergone a conversion. After talking to a bank CIO and attending the salesforce.com Cloudforce Tour yesterday in San Jose, California, I now see a place for the cloud in banking. The bank CIO talked about moving not just prospecting, but account origination to the cloud, specifically to force.com. The tools available on force.com make [...]

Will Financial Reform Change Wall Street? Yeah, Right

Updated: 2010-06-23 22:23:20

Former Bear Stearns chief Alan “Ace” Greenberg is a walking, talking advertisement for the urgent necessity of financial reform.

The post-holiday reality blues

Updated: 2010-06-23 07:35:00

Bank branches and the next gen mobile

Updated: 2010-06-23 07:05:00

Things worth reading: 23rd June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-23 06:53:00

Interchange Theory: Simultaneous Rent-Extraction from Both Merchants and Consumers

Updated: 2010-06-23 06:32:17

Todd Zywicki and I have been having a back and forth on interchange in several forums. Todd and Joshua Wright had an op-ed in the Washington Times, I responded with a letter to the editor, and then Todd came back...

Financial Reform: How Regulating Debit Cards Helps Retailers and Consumers

Updated: 2010-06-22 19:17:02

A congressional compromise over how to regulate debit cards will benefit business owners.

With perfect foresight, where would you invest?

Updated: 2010-06-22 07:18:00

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Learning from Asia About Banks & Carriers Playing Nice

Updated: 2010-06-22 06:20:15

One of Celent’s greatest strengths is that we have offices and analysts all over the world, covering various aspects of financial services. This is important because Celent is able to research cutting-edge technologies developed in one country/region that may be harbingers for market developments in other countries/regions. My latest report, Lessons from the Mobile Payments [...]

Things worth reading: 22nd June 2010

Updated: 2010-06-22 05:34:49

BIS report French and German banks $1tn exposure

Updated: 2010-06-21 08:52:03

The credit crisis was NOT a Black Swan event (Part Two)

Updated: 2010-06-21 07:05:00

The Disingenuous Mr. Russell Simmons

Updated: 2010-06-19 05:53:09

Russell Simmons (yes, the hip-hop entrepreneur and vegan advocate) is blogging away at Huffington Post against the Durbin interchange amendment. Simmons claims that his card takes "the poor, the voiceless and the under-served" out "from the claws of payday lenders...

Financial Reform: At Last, Wall Street Finds Some Friends -- New York Democrats

Updated: 2010-06-18 21:18:14

Why are New York Democrats trying to scuttle a plan to stop Wall Street banks from playing with derivatives?

Financial Reform: Five Reasons Why We Need Protection From Car Dealers

Updated: 2010-06-18 16:28:26

Five reasons why Congress is nuts to consider shielding car dealers from the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

8.3.10: Celent Banking Webinar: Lessons from the Mobile Payments Leader: What the World Can Learn from the Japanese Market

Updated: 2010-06-17 20:13:26

Red Gillen, Senior Analyst, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend. Celent clients and the media will have access to the webinar’s PowerPoint presentation after the event. Please click here for more information.

The End of Free Checking?

Updated: 2010-06-17 05:59:06

The Wall Street Journal has a story that Bank of America is contemplating the end of free checking in response to the paring back of fee income due to regulatory reform. Banks are undoubtedly already adapting to the past year's...

Russell Simmons, Interchange Crusader

Updated: 2010-06-16 03:18:19

It's amazing who the interchange debate will bring out of the woodwork. Hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill (and on Huffington Post) urging Congress not to act on interchange reform. Why is Simmons so...

Banking the Unbanked--Government-Sponsored Prepaid Cards?

Updated: 2010-06-16 03:17:46

Blogging about the RushCard has me thinking. Prepaid debit is filling a market need for financial services (payments and safe-keeping) for the unbanked. But prepaid debit products are often as predatory in their pricing as check-cashing outlets. So two questions....

RBC Launches myFinanceTracker PFM. Strong Start or False Start?

Updated: 2010-06-15 17:33:57

I am always excited when a bank launches an innovative product. RBC (in Canada) recently announced the launch of myFinanceTracker. RBC is “using the services of a California-based online financial solutions company” to offer the solution. To my knowledge, RBC is the first Canadian bank to offer PFM. It is a great move on their [...]

8.11.10: Celent Banking Webinar: Cutting Cost to the Core

Updated: 2010-06-15 15:06:06

Bart Narter, Senior Vice President, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend. Celent clients and the media will have access to the webinar’s PowerPoint presentation after the event. Please click here for more information.

7.14.10: Celent Banking Webinar: Reg, Reg, Go Away: Sorry Banks, They’re Here to Stay

Updated: 2010-06-15 15:04:43

Customers getting in control of their cards

Updated: 2010-06-14 15:50:35

In my last blog post, I talked about a Lloyds TSB Airmiles Duo card, which gives the customers a choice of using either MasterCard or American Express card for their purchases. I believe this is an example of a broader trend in card issuing - giving the customers more control. Here are a couple of other examples of card [...]

non-branch channels

Updated: 2010-06-12 15:10:59

Two different banks in the past 30 days have come to Celent looking for help with non-branch channels, and the banks couldn’t be more different. One is a local bank in the US with a few dozen branches. The other is a global bank with operations in dozens of countries. Both are thinking about the [...]

The Interchange Cross-Subsidy: False Analogies

Updated: 2010-06-08 19:05:11

Zywicki's interchange paper repeats a claim made by other opponents of interchange regulation that cross-subsidies, even regressive ones, exist throughout the economy, so there's no reason to get worked up over the interchange cross-subsidy imposed by credit card network rules....

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