House Passes CHOICE Act, Senate Action Unlikely

The House on Thursday passed House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s (R-Texas) bill to overhaul the Dodd-Frank Act; the bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to die. The House passed the measure 233-186, with no Democrats supporting it and...

Mobile Banking Becoming Default Digital Standard

More than half of active digital banking users plug into mobile regularly and for some financial institutions, the percentage is even better than 70%, according to the Austin, Texas-based Malauzai Software. For its May Monkey Insights report Malauzai, a mobile and...

Senate Taking Slow Route to Dodd-Frank Overhaul

As the House prepared to pass a Republican plan to overhaul Dodd-Frank, Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Id.) said Thursday that his committee won’t produce its bill for at least several months. And the goal, Crapo said, is to produce a bipartisan package...

Did You Know? CU Edition

I have a lot of questions for credit union executives, marketers, tellers and pro- and anti-credit union lobbyists. And for this column I’m taking a break from Dodd-Frank, peer-to-peer payment trends and any credit union employee that has been busted for fraud...