The latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast features interviews with the winners of ABA's 2018 Community Commitment Awards.

One in four Americans are caregiving for someone, and nearly two-thirds of those are helping manage someone’s financial affairs.

The American Bankers Association today launched a new training initiative designed help veterans, active-duty service members and military spouses transition to careers in banking.

Just 28 percent of Americans -- approximately 70 million people -- are financially healthy, according to the Center for Financial Services Innovation’s inaugural U.S. Financial Health Pulse report released today.

More than 6,350 bankers will deliver financial education lessons to nearly 171,800 teens nationwide this year as part of the American Bankers Association’s Get Smart About Credit initiative.

The ABA Foundation and the Federal Trade Commission today released an infographic to help consumers recognize and understand the growing trend of fake check scams.

After years of progress, there’s been only modest improvement in economic and financial education in the United States. 

In response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s eleventh of 12 requests for information, ABA issued a comment letter encouraging the CFPB to broaden the scope of the financial education it provides and promotes.

In remarks at a town hall event in Topeka, Kan., today, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Mick Mulvaney said that the bureau is working to form “community networks” of local law enforcement agencies and state financial regulators that can work together with the CFPB to counter elder financial abuse and “find where the problems are.”

On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, sponsored by Windstream Enterprise, Connecticut banker George Hermann discussed his bank's in-school branch program.