Sat.Jun 08, 2013 - Fri.Jun 14, 2013

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Lessons Learned: Banks that thrived during crisis grew loans slower prior to it.

Jeff For Banks

'The St. Louis Fed recently performed a study to uncover the characteristics of community banks that thrived during the financial crisis. Thriving banks were defined as under $10 billion in assets, and maintained a composite CAMELS 1 rating in each exam cycle from 2006-11, an impressive accomplishment. As with most government driven academic studies, there were numerous answers.

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What PRISM, Waze and PFM have in common: the need for trust

Javelin Strategy & Research

There’s a bit of irony regarding two headlines in my local newspaper: “Tech firms seek to lift secrecy on spy data” on the front page, and “Google buying startup Waze” stripped across the Business front.

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Why mobile will revitalize online

Javelin Strategy & Research

When smartphones hit the scene, the reaction in the financial services industry was predictable and practical. Innovative financial institutions rushed to roll out a user experience that mirrored what customers had come to expect from their online channels. In too many cases, though, that led to a lot of squinting and fumbling. Then came the iPad, and the quickest financial institutions responded initially with a “2x” magnification of their iPhone apps that led to over-sized and over-pixalated k

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