Bank & Financial

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U.S. Banker May 2005 Lee Conrad	As Industry Collects Billions, Consumers Cry Foul Consumer groups say some banks encourage customers to overextend themselves. Though regulators have stepped in to halt misleading overdraft-protection practices, advocates warn it's not enough.
U.S. Banker May 2005 Karen Krebsbach	SOX Costs Prompt Switch From Public to Private Many public community banks are going private to avoid the high costs and reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. But are the savings of going private worth the hassle?
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Phil Britt	Balancing Act There is a transition away from paper and toward electronic transactions, but banks and their corporate customers want options for making electronic payments.
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Phil Britt	Reconcilable Differences One way for our bank to differentiate itself was to offer business customers a better way to identify and reconcile disputes between receivables and actual remittances, according to Cindy Murray, EVP, service products group, ABN AMRO Services Co.
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Phil Britt	Stay a While Mellon's in-house technicians, using proprietary Web-based technology that they already relied on to support other corporate banking functions, developed Liquidity Management Service (LMS)
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Phil Britt	Shoring Up the Defenses When hackers launched a virus targeting financial institutions, Todd Williams, director of technology for Heritage Bank, had already checked the Dallas-based bank's firewall twice when the monitoring system "went all red," he says.
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Judy Ward	Learning to Comply The complexities of compliance require strict training. For Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union (OCTFCU), classroom-based training became too time consuming and costly.
Bank Systems & Technology May 4, 2005 Peggy Bresnick Kendler	Cards Product innovation is key to growth in the card business, but the ability to grow without sacrificing security, speed and reliability is critical. Banks that can provide these things will achieve success.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	A Morningstar Is Born Financial research specialist Morningstar makes the grade in its lively IPO.
Bank Systems & Technology May 3, 2005 Deena M. Amato-McCoy	Creating Virtual Value By integrating business channels, consolidating customer histories and beefing up security, banks are improving their online offerings to provide customers with all the conveniences of branch banking in the comfort of their own homes.
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