Aug 21, 2019
In 2019, a unique financial institution marks its centennial: the Bank of North Dakota, America's only state-owned and state-run bank. Part Federal Reserve, part economic development agency and part bankers’ bank, BND was spawned as a prairie populist reaction to a very different economic and social milieu. However,...
Aug 14, 2019
Few experts are as deeply immersed in both financial regulation and advanced computing technologies than Gene Ludwig, the former comptroller of the currency who founded Promontory Financial Group, currently an IBM subsidiary that applies its regulatory expertise to training IBM’s Watson in banking rules. On the latest...
Aug 7, 2019
With seven in 10 Americans living in a jurisdiction where local laws permit recreational or medicinal marijuana use, banks are increasingly focused on providing banking services to cannabis-related businesses in a way that improves public safety, reduces tax evasion and supports local economic growth. On the...