A Big Summer for Advancements at the ATM
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The immutable ATM as consumers know it appears to be breaking new ground with some recent advancements in technology. This summer, Diebold introduced text receipts for ATM transactions and NCR Corp. unveiled Interactive Teller video banking. But possibly the most interesting and dramatic technological advancement for the ATM may be cardless ATMs. Read more>>
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Hoenig: Five Years After the Crisis We are Replicating Many of the Same Conditions
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"Five years after the crisis, despite new laws and regulations, we are replicating many of the conditions that contributed to the crisis, but we somehow are expecting things to end differently," says FDIC Vice Chairman Tom Hoenig. Read more>> |
CFPB Spotlights Mortgage Trends With New Online Tool
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched an online tool to provide consumers with easy access to public mortgage information collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. The tool enables greater transparency by helping inform people of trends in their local mortgage markets. Read more>>
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SEC Establishes Registration Regime for Municipal Advisors
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Banks do not have to register to the extent they provide advice on certain identified banking products and services (such as deposit accounts, extensions of credit or bond indenture trustee services), according to the SEC's announcement of the final rules. Read more>>
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Innovative Ideas for Small Business Loans Date: Oct. 9 Does your borrower's number of Facebook friends indicate anything about his or her repayment risk? Who underwrites business loans using Yelp? How much data can be accessed that provides evidence of whether a small business can successfully manage growth capital? All these questions and more are considered in this training program about the growing sector of "innovative" small business lenders, where private equity meets technology to deliver capital to cash-starved small business owners. Learn how this sector's funding has grown to almost $10 billion annually, and how it threatens to take more deal flow from banks and traditional lending companies with small, higher priced, but impressively well-repaid loans - and what you can do about it!
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St. Louis Fed to Host Community Banking Research and Policy Conference
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A community banking research and policy conference, "Community Banking in the 21st Century," will be webcast free from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gateway Conference Center on Oct. 2-3. Read more>>
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NY Fed Evaluates the Market Impact of FOMC Minutes
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Three weeks after each regularly scheduled meeting and policy statement, the FOMC releases detailed minutes. These minutes provide market participants with additional insight into committee member views on the appropriate monetary policy stance and U.S. economic outlook. Yet, little is known about the real-time market response to this information. Read more>> |