The American Bankers Association has updated its QuickReference Guide to banking Regulations to cover legal and regulatory changes through June 2005. The easy-to-use resource is targeted to employees, officers, and directors who may not be immediately responsible for bank compliance but are still expected to be familiar with the laws and rules governing banking institutions. Also, EFMARK Premium Armored has released its Premium Cash Manager program, a fully automated currency management solution that accurately predicts optimal ATM cash load levels. Other news of new products and services is presented.
Matthew Peniazak, president of the Darling Consulting Group, said at the recent Bank Executives Conference hosted by the Wisconsin Bankers Association, that the environment created by the flat yield curve requires community bankers to develop strategies for growth. Cost of funds will prove to be an important competitive factor, he said. WBA President and CEO Kurt Bauer called the industry's skirmish with the state Department of Revenue over out-of-state investment subsidiaries during the last 2 years the most difficult issue Wisconsin banking has faced in at least 25 years. Bauer said WBA is working to restore reputational damage the banking industry may have suffered. Credit union guru Keith Leggett of the American Bankers Association addressed a select group of bankers at the opening ...
... numbered years, featured an exhibit hall and news about association developments, as well as politic...
American kids seem to grow more sophisticated with each generation. They also represent a formidable consumer market, earning and spending $169 billion in 2004, according to the 2004 study conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited of Northbrook, IL. Yet studies show they lack one critical skill they will need in today's complex world: personal money management. The American Bankers Association Education Foundation (ABAEF) believes news like this can be discouraging, but knows bankers are fighting to reverse negative trends. ABAEF introduced a banker-driven savings education program called Teach Children to Save and has been tracking bankers' involvement since National Teach Children to Save Day began in Apr 1997. Bankers are also connecting with the communities they serve through credit e...
In the March 2009 edition of the American Bankers Association's ABA Bank Marketing magazine, Virginia Graves wrote in an article titled Campaigns That Soothe, People walking into bank lobbies today are worried less about features and fees... and more about the security of their deposits. The American Bankers Association's 2008 ABA Bank Marketing Survey Report found that economic conditions appeared to affect marketing spending of smaller banks to a greater extent than that of larger banks.
... to the challenge of getting out the positive news for some banks. The American Bankers Association's...
A Jamaica Bankers' Association (JBA) spokesman, Dave Garcia, is contending that some current provisions of the draft legislation are not workable - a point already made by the bankers to the parliamentarians. One of the early issues we made submission on was the question of competitiveness in the credit-bureau business," said Garcia, general counsel at National Commercial Bank Jamaica and attorneyat-law representing the JBA According to Garcia, "A happy compromise is to require that the bureau can only release the information with the customer's consent, but we can have a free flow of information into the bureau.
During the first quarter of 2010, the American Bankers Association reported the lowest number of delinquent credit card payments in eight years. News of this decline is a good sign that US is beginning to bounce back front the recession. But it's overshadowed by the staggering $15 billion Americans are still paying each year in penalties. Signed into law on May 22 2009, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 was designed to help protect cardholders from excessive fees and unfair rate increases.
The American Bankers Association is the latest group to speak out against a federal regulation that will cap how much banks charge merchants when customers use debit cards. The Durbin Amendment, which was added to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, will go into effect July 21. It mandates that large banks cap debit card interchange fees at 12 cents per transaction, regardless of the purchase total.
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The American Bankers Association has launched Frontline Compliance Training. Member banks receive unlimited access to 73 online courses, which were developed with contributions from senior industry compliance experts. The courses educate employees on topics such as the Bank Secrecy Act for tellers, privacy for customer service representatives, the Fair Credit Reporting Act for call center representatives, expedited funds availability for tellers and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act for consumer lenders. Meanwhile, Cypress Software Systems and Asch Advisory Services have partnered to develop small business credit origination scoring systems for integration into Cypress' Bureau Interpretation and Scoring Engine for its BizMark automated small business loan decisioning software. O...
Celebrities, politicians and even bankers have long lamented how the media can twist facts, distort news and make a good thing look bad or a bad thing look worse. Truth is that reading the news or, worse, watching television news, can get most of you in the banking world angry. However, American Bankers Association (ABA) is working in overdrive to address this. ABA is working to educate reporters, columnists and anchors about the true state of the banking industry. ABA has continually been on the front pages and in front of the cameras protecting community banks' reputations of integrity and reassuring consumers about the safety of their deposits. But perhaps the most important work ABA can do is provide you, the members, with the tools necessary to tell your story.
The American Bankers Association has updated its Quick Reference Guide to Banking Regulations to cover legal and regulatory changes, including the new responsibilities under the Bank Secrecy Act and the changes in deposit insurance requirements. The resource is targeted to employees, officers and directors who may not be immediately responsible for bank compliance, but are still expected to be familiar with the laws and rules governing banking institutions. Discover Financial Services has launched a supplemental loss-of-income offering designed to pay benefits directly to the customer to help cover monthly expenses. The offering helps card members maintain their finances during unexpected life events such as unemployment, disability, accidental death and family leave. Income Gap Protect...
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