Stories Collection

  1. The complexity of pain involves sensory stimulation and an intricate combination of p...
  2. Over the last 2 months, there have been several comments on the TNP electronic mailin...
  3. Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent group of mental disorders in the United Stat...
  4. Cynthia D. Pacek, RN, MBA, CNA Ancillary Services Manager Family Health Center of Wo...
  5. Early Intervention Screening Progam Identifies Those At Risk Several alarming cases ...
  6. One benefit of being a AAACN member is access to e-mail discussion lists for many amb...
  7. Keep in mind that, even though there may be specific policies and procedures governin...
  8. I work in a clinic in the inner city of Cleveland, OH. Long ago, I gave up using the ...
  9. This is the second installment on the results of the TelehealthSurvey(c) recently end...
  10. The 2002-2003 AAACN Nominating Committee presents the candidates for the 2002 electio...
  11. It's that time again! The month of July, when all the new interns and residents arriv...
  12. AAACN Participates in Classification Study on Patient Outcomes During 2000, AAACN pa...
  13. On December 26, 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued its f...
  14. DISTANCE LEARNING has been referred to as the Internet's "second wave." By 2002, anal...
  15. Saturated or not, banks keep branching outThough six of 10 community bankers think th...
  16. Some 600 bankers gathered for the American Bankers Association's annual community ban...
  17. Belmont Marie Antoinette Hanna Abinader, Stefanie Hanna Abinader, Liria Bernardi, Da...
  18. If you want to land a job in Louisiana, you better find the right major in college --...
  19. ATTACK BRIEFING American flags return to full staff today From Journal Sentinel...
  20. ATTACK ON AMERICA Tell families you're going to die, hijackers order Cell phone...
  21. ATTACK ON AMERICA Passenger tells of hijacking just before crash Man locked in ...
  22. "USA Patriot Act." "Customer identification programs." "Know your customer." "Custome...
  23. For a time so-called "Medical Savings Accounts were permitted under federal law to pe...
  24. Earlier this year, as global negotiations on the Basel II Capital Accord were nearing...
  25. When bankers went to the polls this month, many might have entertained the thought, C...
  26. One document retention consultant recently put it this way: "To run a public company ...
  27. Q. Can disclosures be made in a language other than English? A. The issue is address...
  28. An election year throws up issues that are too hotly debated for studied reviews and ...
  29. WE'RE CALLED "A NATION OF immigrants," and we are, but have we forgotten the lessons ...
  30. Just about everyone has an elderly relative or friend who needs some sort of long-ter...
  31. I WAS INTRIGUED BY AN OP-ED piece in the Jan. 26 edition of the Wall Street Journal b...
  32. THE WAY I FIGURE IT, WE NEED TO get the whole "first woman chairman of the ABA" thing...
  33. The mantra today's competitive commercial banking arena is "your existing customers a...
  34. El Banco uncovers significant revenue from a segment most banks ignore. Where will y...
  35. Bruce Moulton is a Boston-based vice-president of information security business strat...
  36. Five years ago, ABA created the Center for Agricultural and Rural Banking to help ban...
  37. Bankers are deeply involved in community activities, almost always on a volunteer bas...
  38. Betsy Duke's been hooked on a computer game for 25 years. Not Ms. Pac Man. Not Flight...
  39. When they aren't worrying about credit unions, many community bankers worry about Sta...
  40. Last month we ran the first part of a report prepared by Contributing Editor Ed Bloun...
  41. Classified assets have increased steadily in recent years--especially for community b...
  42. THE OUTLOOK FOR MONETARY policy has crystallized around the notion that the Federal R...
  43. The growth of derivatives, structured products, sophisticated technologies, and the e...
  44. A decade ago, banks were only starting to feel competition from banks from other stat...
  45. In the mortgage industry, management faces the challenge of maintaining profits while...
  46. Does your bank engage in a regular, comprehensive strategic planning process? If so, ...
  47. To the editor: I recently read your column (June 2004) entitled, "For dumb service...
  48. On Oct. 21, bankers will enter a new realm. Instead of walking into their offices, ba...
  49. Over lunch recently, a former colleague of mine from Wells Fargo asked, "In hindsight...
  50. E-mail: One of the most useful business tools to come along in decades can also be on...
  51. On a busy Sunday morning in late June, contributing editor Ed Hilton Blount breakfast...
  52. The fast-growing online fraud with the funny name--phishing--is anything but a laughi...
  53. "POLITICS AIN'T WORRYING THIS country one tenth as much as parking space." --Will ...
  54. At San Joaquin Bank, Bakersfield, Calif., President and CEO Bart Hill doesn't worry a...
  55. Community banks of all sizes share a common challenge: employee communication. It is ...
  56. A NEW YORK CLOTHING STORE chain has for years used the same tagline in its advertisin...
  57. When you consider the history of the use of bank premiums, remember: in the beginning...
  58. "There's a war going on out there in the deposit business. So says Sherief Meleis, ma...
  59. To some, scotch whisky is the smoky, reflective dram that the ancient Scots dubbed ui...
  60. Around the time the recession put a chokehold on capital spending, customer relations...
  61. Central bankers are supposed to be prescient. Gary Stern and Ron Feldman, CEO and vic...
  62. ABA is offering its community bank members a free guide to help them assess the oppor...
  63. Personalized service. As consumers, we want it ... we've come to expect it ... and mo...
  64. RISING INFLATION IS NOW more of a risk, but should be contained by modest wage gains,...
  65. Your current and potential customers have access to myriad in-branch and on-line fina...
  66. Q. A director of our bank has agreed to put up non-bank stock as collateral for a pro...
  67. ABA has added new information for consumers on how they can protect themselves from i...
  68. One fruit of high-yield markets, the "advice play," was widely touted in the late 199...
  69. IT'S AMAZING THE VARIETY OF WAYS banks find to participate in--and give back to--thei...
  70. There has long been a tension between state and federal law concerning banking, its r...
  71. With increased market pressure, short-lived product innovation and fierce competition...
  72. THE HEADACHE No matter how big or small a community bank, one factor all have in c...
  73. Introduction The process of recording real estate documents with county government...
  74. OVER THE LAST FOUR QUARTERS we have seen a solid pace of economic growth as measured ...
  75. Some things, it seems, will never change. As long as there are federal agencies and f...
  76. "How many of you like money?" the speaker asked the students of Public School 20 in L...
  77. Suppose you want to pay your stockbroker online from your bank account. Or transfer m...
  78. Last year businesses, consumers, and the federal government processed ten billion ele...
  79. For banks that want to make the most of the Check 21 opportunity, hard re-engineering...
  80. If something as intricate and demanding as compliance can be summed up in a few words...
  81. IS THERE ANYONE READING this who prefers using a voice response system to having a pe...
  82. How do we find the banks that appear in this feature? Some come from bankers, some fr...
  83. To appraiser Gary Taylor, a good gauge of what it means for a real estate appraiser t...
  84. In some ways 2002 was extraordinary for its ordinariness--retail ruled and banks that...
  85. ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking Washington, D.C. June 12-19 ABA Ret...
  86. A scan of today's financial industry landscape reveals one prominent point of interes...
  87. "No direct deposit, no account" was the message that one of Ireland's two dominant ba...
  88. Don't drool when you see North Fork Bancorporation's efficiency ratio: In 2003, the r...
  89. In many banks, the look and function of the branch is changing. The question of the m...
  90. While job prospects for new graduates aren't bright in many sectors of the economy, e...
  91. When the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act--or Check 21--takes effect on Octobe...
  92. ARE JOBS BEING "EXPORTED" to foreign countries as businesses struggle to cut costs? A...
  93. As stated in the introduction, Check 21 doesn't mandate image exchange or conversion,...
  94. What defines success? One answer may focus on how many products you can sell. Another...
  95. Ask ten people questions about the implications of Check 21, and you'll get a cornuco...
  96. "IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS WE virus scan." --Author Unknown I truly believe ...
  97. Not many community banks can claim General Motors as one of their debtors. But then a...
  98. In the years following the September 11 tragedy, there has been an increased focus on...
  99. Banks that move quickly and aggressively to implement secure messaging--particularly ...
  100. How banks answer the above questions varies widely, but thanks to increasingly sophis...
  101. When it comes to security, nearly all of us have gotten an education about worms and ...
  102. Debit cards are the darlings of the card world at the moment, but other types of plas...
  103. After a tight-fisted approach to information technology management that spanned the r...
  104. Managers of banks must cope daily with exposures that arise from their market and cre...
  105. Hitachi has developed a [mu]-Chip (Mu-Chip), capable of announcing its presence from ...
  106. Automated Trading Desk (ATD) is a trading-technology company created to develop syste...
  107. Financial institutions are responsible for ensuring that systems and data are protect...
  108. In May of this year, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly met with the med...
  109. Here are some look-ahead tips from speakers at the ABA Money Laundering Conference *...
  110. LED BY THE STRENGTHENING U.S. economy, the global economy, in the year ahead appears ...
  111. AS LONG AS WE CAN REMEMBER, people have said over and over, "Banks are order takers;"...
  112. THE HEADACHE A Connecticut bank CE0 asks: "I've been in the banking business f...
  113. First three correct responses to our "Lighthouse" puzzle in the October issue arrived...
  114. Why is it that some banks are growing income at 20% or more per year, while others ar...
  115. Many community bankers would rather eat eggshells than make life easier for credit un...
  116. Coming just two weeks after the rules for customer identification programs (CIP) took...
  117. "If you want a relationship, you gotta have it I with a spouse," growled the architec...
  118. It's not unknown for banks to make retail-side accommodations to win corporate busine...
  119. A Shared Goal Enable community bankers to compete more successfully in an increasi...
  120. IBM can help you with virtualization. So can Microsoft and Sun. And they're not alone...
  121. Thousands of bankers from across the country went into classrooms and participated in...
  122. As someone once observed, everybody is in sales. We all have something to sell-an ide...
  123. During the consolidation of the banking industry in the U.S. and Europe, bankers have...
  124. YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT, IN BIG WAYS and small, America's bankers contribute to their co...
  125. Q. What should a bank do, when taking a Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) applicati...
  126. Head west from well-scrubbed Minneapolis, a city of skyways and trash free sidewalks,...
  127. Street protests against global institutions have become predictable during any gather...
  128. In the mid to late 1960s, a precocious teenager named Frank W. Abagnale got away with...
  129. Joan Kratz is vice-president of business marketing for BellSouth. She has worked with...
  130. The financial services industry is no stranger to outsourcing. Increasingly, institut...
  131. OCTOBER MARKED THE FOURTH anniversary of ABA's partnership with America's Promise, th...
  132. One school of thought about the new Basel Capital Accord says it has almost nothing t...
  133. In the summer of 2002, Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed significa...
  134. Tom FitzGibbons' aunt passed away several years ago, leaving him with a mess. His ...
  135. Stored value cards are receiving considerable attention among financial institutions ...
  136. If there's agreement to be had on the hotly debated subject of operational risk, it's...
  137. All of the applications described in this section are enterprise solutions that emplo...
  138. The banking challenge: Ensure uniform customer experience and service quality at ever...
  139. Maybe it's the Honolulu address--five time zones distant from the East Coast--but Ban...
  140. Taking good care of existing customers is a key to maintaining and growing a bank's b...
  141. ABA has expanded its endorsement of Private Business Inc. to include the LineManager ...
  142. The banking challenge: Provide secure banking capabilities for mobile financial advis...
  143. Of the state of the financial services industry preparedness for emergency in 2003, C...
  144. First Class Banking" is the marketing motto--it's even used as the web address--of Fi...
  145. "Isabel", the hurricane, notwithstanding, responses to our "Configurations" puzzle be...
  146. If necessity remains the mother of invention, then cost control has become invention'...
  147. Banks are preparing for impeding rule changes, stemming from the Basel II Accord, whi...
  148. While most large banks provide securities brokerage, only a minority of community ban...
  149. Five hundredths of one percent may not seem like much to the average person. To an ec...
  150. THE TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS found out the truth of that statement a few weeks ago during...
  151. The banking challenge: Build a customer-centric bank and modernize aging systems. Ove...
  152. It's the popular refrain that we live in riskier times. Just turn on the television o...
  153. It's the online equivalent of the burglar who poses as a gas company employee. It's' ...
  154. Without customers, where would your bank be today? As bankers, our focus often shifts...
  155. Early in October, Check 21 made it one step closer to being signed into law. Now, the...
  156. ABABJ: How long have you worked for Ohio Savings Bank? Speare: I was brought in ab...
  157. Governments and businesses still use paper checks for most (82%) of their business tr...
  158. For years, retail banks have struggled to get branch staffing just right. Branch mana...
  159. THE HEADACHE A harried executive asks: "It seems like there's less time for busy C...
  160. How Are You Doing? How Do You Know? Ask community bankers what differentiates thei...
  161. Q. What is a "micropolitan"? A. We'll have to back up a bit to define that. The Fe...
  162. The time: The early 1990s. The place: New England. Fleet Bank has been growing aggre...
  163. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT INTEREST RATES, fees, and office hours. We don't win customers so...
  164. The world of check processing and check imaging is undergoing a period of tremendous ...
  165. WHO'S TALKING: Prior to becoming president of banking solutions, William Neville a...
  166. For bankers, making appropriate IT choices is like trying to hit a moving target--you...
  167. CONSUMER SPENDING HAS been the backbone of the U.S. economy since the collapse of bus...
  168. Advances in technology have paved the way for document imaging. 'Among all community ...
  169. In the beginning there was man. Then came currency and banking. Further down the line...
  170. Bank sales of insurance is skewed in terms of both levels of participation and revenu...
  171. Can a corporation and its managers be held liable for the environmental clean up cost...
  172. Even as banks seek to reduce automotive loan default rates, the fact is that a certai...
  173. Banks sell individual life and health insurance through a variety of distribution met...
  174. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, FORMER ABA president, Walter Dods, CEO of BankWest Corp., Honolulu...
  175. Thomas Mullin, trust officer, First National Bank & Trust of Newtown, Pa., Teri S...
  176. Ten years move pretty fast when you're trying to get a new bank off the ground, and s...
  177. When it comes to growth, acquisition is the name of the game at North Carolina-based ...
  178. The next time you check into a hotel room and realize that the federalized air safety...
  179. This article suggests that bankers need, more than ever, to consider technology platf...
  180. When you're talking about the nation's seventh-largest financial holding company, com...
  181. Banks once again made significant gains in selling life and health insurance last yea...
  182. Like many bank employees, "worker x" at West Georgia National Bank had authorized acc...
  183. ACL Services LMTD CONTACT: Stefan Barclay E-MAIL ADDRESS: info@acl.com WEB...
  184. History has shown that bankers are often faced with technology decisions that they ne...
  185. Mortgage lenders have been living high off the refinance boom, hiring thousands of ne...
  186. With direct deposits and other categories of EFT transactions approaching saturation,...
  187. Q. If a Money Market Deposit Account (MMDA) is being used to conduct more than the nu...
  188. Men's clothing and retail financial services would not seem to have much in common. A...
  189. REPRESENTING YOU AND SERVING our great industry this year has been an especially rewa...
  190. Many of America's bankers partner with Information Technology, and see it as one of t...
  191. You rely heavily on your core banking software. It helps you deliver quality service ...
  192. KEN FERGESON IS A MASS OF CONTRADICTIONS: a registered Democrat who helped bring a ri...
  193. If you have a management conundrum that you'd like input on, send it to Steve Cocheo,...
  194. You never hear the phrase "banker's hours" anymore. It's as much of an anachronism as...
  195. Are you serious about your investment service and customer satisfaction? If so, Raymo...
  196. Wayne Abernathy's office at the main Treasury building in Washington is pretty typica...
  197. Six Sigma is one method of achieving operational excellence beginning to garner a lot...
  198. OKLAHOMA "PHILOSOPHER," Ken Fergeson, said some interesting things in our visit with ...
  199. In a report issued early in July, the Financial Services Technology Consortium rated ...