Sat.Oct 26, 2013 - Fri.Nov 01, 2013

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Bank Shareholders Are Only One Seventh of the Equation

Jeff For Banks

'I am guilty. Guilty of elevating increasing shareholder value to Napoleonic heights. I annually rank the top five financial institutions by total return to shareholders. I write about developing a strategic plan that results in financial returns that satisfy shareholders. I confess, I contributed to the notion that the shareholder matters above all else.

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In 5 Years, 50% of revenue will be digital

Banking 4 Tomorrow

'Where’s the revenue going to come from? Mobile use is exploding in the banking scene. If you are a retail bank today in the developed world and you don’t have an app for your customers, you are increasingly becoming an exception. Certainly almost every bank in the world today has some form of Internet website […].

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

'QE3 Taper—Never Mind If you are a fixed income investor, you are still shell shocked. Throughout the summer, the great bond market selloff of 2013 continued on. Treasuries, Agencies, mortgage backed securities, corporate, municipals- all were battered because the markets believed that the Federal Reserve was about to cut the amount of, or “taper,” its $85 billion of monthly purchases of long term bonds.