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By John Ginovsky

Last year, in 46% of the FDIC IT examinations in which bank ratings were downgraded, inadequate vendor management was cited as a causal factor, says Donald Saxinger, senior examination specialist in FDIC's Technology Supervision Branch.

"I'm not saying it was the primal causal factor, but, in 46% of the downgrades, vendor management was

Gamification. Sounds like yet another trendy, buzzy, shot-in-the-dark term people make up to hype the latest hair-brained approach to financial services operations, a term like Big Data, BYOD, or social media.

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Community bank leader Ken Burgess learned versatility meeting challenges in three diverse Texas markets. He's using it to help meet banking's challenges in Washington