When it comes to delivering statements and notices to customers, will you join the paperless movement? According to the just-published CSI 2013 Annual Banking Priorities Study, more than 85 percent of your financial industry peers are “going green”—meaning they have eliminated or are in the process of eliminating paper delivery.

So, May 7 was supposed to be a day of dread for financial institutions across the country as the hacktivist collective Anonymous announced it would slam banks and credit unions with system-halting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Going strictly by the numbers, the 2013 forecast for the financial services industry is bright indeed. According to reports by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), industry earnings totaled $141.3 billion in 2012—a 19.3 percent improvement over 2011 and the highest net income since 2006.