Reserve Banks Return Nearly $90 Billion to U.S. Treasury
In 2012, the Federal Reserve System transferred 88.9 billion dollars to the U.S. Treasury. This revenue represents most of the ...
Month: January 2013
Host Elected to the Atlanta Fed’s Board of Directors
Gerard R. Host, president and chief executive officer of Trustmark Corp., has been elected to the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
Parallel Paths or Course to Collision? Technology’s Effects in the Payments Industry
Criminals have proved their ingenuity when it comes to laundering dirty money. The Retail Payments Risk Forum explored what makes ...
Bluebird Will Offer Checking to Customers
Bluebird, the novel American Express-Walmart joint venture, will soon offer its customers the ability to write checks from their accounts, ...
Death & Taxes: Republic Bank & Trust Launches App for Tax Preparers
It's that time of the year again, when attention turns to Tax Day on April 15 -- which has led ...
CFPB Releases Multitude of Activities
The CFPB opened a firehouse of new rule publications this month associated with Dodd Frank. Final rulings were published on ...
Underbanked Wish List
Goal and resolutions? Too personal. Predictions for this coming year? Too much pressure. Post mortem on last year? Too boring. So, instead, ...
U.S. Energy Renaissance
Shale and other unconventional resources are changing the face of energy production and employment in the Southeast and around the ...
Two Leaps Forward, One Step Back for Regional Labor Markets
The recession hit southeastern labor markets hard, and the road to recovery has been a rugged one. SouthPoint looks at ...
Technology in Wealth Management: Opportunity or Threat?
(This is an excerpt from an article I wrote for the William Mills Agency’s 2013 Bankers as Buyers report. Click here ...
