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Can Comic Books Boost Compliance And AML Efforts?

PYMNTS

Comic books (along with their more sophisticated cousins, graphic novels) are treated not only as literature these days by fans and many scholars, but they also have a firm place in U.S. Now comes a comic book contribution to one of the most vexing and vital issues of modern payments and commerce — fraud prevention and ID compliance.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

That's the number of books in John Maxfield's banking book library. Doesn't your bank have a bank book library? Two hundred and forty three books. Books are in author last-name order. Because it's a library's worth of books! Two hundred and forty three. How do I know? He sent me his list. Interesting idea.

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New Year’s Resolutions to Grow Your Financial Institution in 2020

Abrigo

Key Takeaways To book loans more quickly, institutions must create efficiencies and increase loan turnaround. Growing the loan portfolio seems fairly straightforward: book more loans. To book loans more quickly, financial institutions must create efficiencies and increase loan turnaround – without sacrificing quality.

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FinTech Step Aims To Create The Concept Of ‘Family Banking’

PYMNTS

The company offers FDIC-insured bank accounts and a Visa -branded payment cards for teens (aged 13-18) with budgeting features and other financial education tools built in. But it also has to be something that parents see as trustworthy, secure, stable and likely to promote financial literacy. We don't take that lightly.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities. According to the FDIC, the causes of the 2008-09 financial crisis lay partly in the housing boom and bust of the mid-2000s; partly in the degree to which the U.S. Perhaps bureaucrats would benefit from a brief stroll through an econ book.

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An Introduction to Understanding FFIEC Regulations

Cisco

This leads to many generations of installed technology sets with diverse hardware and software systems, all that need to be tracked and managed, secured, and audited. The 2021 Updates in the Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations book. Streamlining the IT audit process. In the U.S. Hardware and Software Lifecycles.

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Chime, Challenger Banks And The Challenges Of (Lofty) Valuations

PYMNTS

For the record, banks are more traditionally valued on metrics like price to book, yield and so on. Accounts are FDIC-insured through a partnership with Bancorp Bank. billion valuation, investors were willing to pay roughly 20x sales; that metric is now about 5x, according to Seeking Alpha.