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Report: JPMorgan Chief Market Strategist Marko Kolanovic Stepping Down
Personnel // July 03, 2024

JPMorgan Chase’s chief global market strategist Marko Kolanovic is reportedly stepping down. That’s according to a Wednesday (July 3) report by Bloomberg News, citing an internal memo. That memo says that Kolanovic — a 19-year employee of the country’s largest lender and also its head...

Case Against Big Banks Overcharging on Corporate Bonds Revived
Legal // July 02, 2024

A lawsuit accusing 10 banking giants of overcharging investors on corporate bonds has been resurrected. The reason, as Reuters reported Tuesday (July 2), is because the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan has overturned the trial judge’s earlier dismissal of the suit, saying...

How Banks and Big Tech Use AI to Modernize Workflows
artificial intelligence // July 02, 2024

Unlocking operational leverage is the name of the game for today’s businesses. In the face of ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, controlling for what is controllable while making the most of available resources is emerging as a way to capture growth. For instance, Amazon is equipping its...

Former J.P. Morgan Payments Head Takis Georgakopoulos to Join Fiserv
Personnel // June 20, 2024

Fiserv has announced that former J.P. Morgan Global Head of Payments Takis Georgakopoulos will join the company, effective Sept. 3. Georgakopoulos will serve as a senior advisor, executive vice president and a member of the management committee, Fiserv said in a Thursday (June 20) press...

Interviews & Exclusives
Pressures on Lower-Income Consumers Signal Pain for Beauty and Apparel Merchants

July 22, 2024
T.S. Eliot wrote that the world would end not with a bang but a whimper. It may be the case that the unstoppable wave of consumer spending may end that way too, and not with a full-fledged slamming on the brakes — a wallop that hits merchants all at once. We may see a pulling […]

PayPal Wants to Monetize the Connected Shopper With Ads

May 28, 2024
Following a trend that has been predicted since JPMorgan Chase announced Chase Media in early April, PayPal has announced the creation of a new advertising division, PayPal Ads, which aims...

Transaction and Consumer-Level Data Help Personalize Card-Linked Rewards Programs

May 22, 2024
Recent announcements from some marquee names in financial services, and commercial partnerships, underscore the use of data, down to the consumer level, in crafting ever-more-relevant card-linked offers. In doing so,...

Senators Press Banks for Better Defenses Against Wire Fraud

April 19, 2024
The looming specter of wire fraud has spurred lawmakers to press big banks for better defenses against bad actors — and a detailing of the impact the scams have had on consumers....

Quick Reads
Report: JPMorgan Chief Market Strategist Marko Kolanovic Stepping Down

July 03, 2024
JPMorgan Chase’s chief global market strategist Marko Kolanovic is reportedly stepping down. That’s according to a Wednesday (July 3) report by Bloomberg News, citing an internal memo. That memo says that Kolanovic — a 19-year employee of the country’s largest lender and also its head of global research — is resigning so he can explore […]

Case Against Big Banks Overcharging on Corporate Bonds Revived

July 02, 2024
A lawsuit accusing 10 banking giants of overcharging investors on corporate bonds has been resurrected. The reason, as Reuters reported Tuesday (July 2), is because the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court...

Former J.P. Morgan Payments Head Takis Georgakopoulos to Join Fiserv

June 20, 2024
Fiserv has announced that former J.P. Morgan Global Head of Payments Takis Georgakopoulos will join the company, effective Sept. 3. Georgakopoulos will serve as a senior advisor, executive vice president...

JPMorgan Payments and Loop Team to Monetize Freight Payments

June 18, 2024
J.P. Morgan Payments has launched a partnership with audit/payment platform Loop. The collaboration announced Tuesday (June 18), is designed to “boost working capital with freight payments,” the companies said in a news...