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The latest monthly reports from credit card issuers provide more evidence that loss rates will stay abnormally low longer than thought just a few months ago.
As the Financial Stability Oversight Council works through its checklist of jobs mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act and continues a project to spur reform of the money market mutual funds, the big question is: What will the interagency body focus on next?
Bankers are expected to learn in 2013 what trades the Volcker Rule allows, what qualifies as a "qualified mortgage" and what it means to be "systemically important."
Executives from four community banks established during the last wave of de novo bank creation talk about their experiences in surviving the economic crisis and their plans for when the economy rebounds.
Bank mergers and acquisitions will increase only slightly as capital levels and regulatory limits prompt buyers to choose targets carefully, says Nadine Mirchandani of Ernst & Young.
Happy third anniversary, Brian Moynihan. Investors and others are complimenting your work streamlining the troubled Bank of America — and debating whether a new CEO is needed to kick-start growth.
From exposes of questionable practices at megabanks to incursions onto bank turf by nontraditional players, these are American Banker's most popular stories of 2012.
California, by holding out for a $12 billion side deal with Chase, Wells and B of A, secured a far larger share of the settlement than fairness would seem to dictate.
