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Eastern bank in Mass. taps Citi cards exec to lead consumer lending

Payments Source

Eastern Bank in Boston has hired a former Citi Cards executive to oversee its consumer-lending business.

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Strategies for fighting remote authentication fraud

Independent Banker

Experts say community banks can use education, biometrics and solid cybersecurity practices to fight this growing area of crime. Say a scammer calls a community bank customer and gains their trust by using information obtained from a major data breach. By Elizabeth Judd. Examples of remote authentication fraud.

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Eastern Bank in Mass. Taps Citi Cards Exec to Lead Consumer Lending

American Banker

Eastern Bank in Boston has hired a former Citi Cards executive to oversee its consumer lending business.

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Bankers: Is It Worth Buying Checking Accounts

Jeff For Banks

Aside from credit cards, I don't get much attention from bankers or financial advisors. Interested to see how much a bank was willing to pay for my business. Courtesy of their Sovereign Bank bailout, ummm… acquisition. I've heard opinions on whether a community bank should buy checking accounts.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, and Credit Union Advisory Council. New members to the Consumer Advisory Board will serve three-year terms and new members to the Community Bank and Credit Union Advisory Councils will serve two-year terms.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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Top 13 Bank, Fintech & Financial Services Marketing Conferences

Fintech Labs Insights

For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. For the most part, early-bird (or very-early-bird) prices are still in effect, so you can easily save $1,000 or more on a pair of tickets.