REGULATORS ADOPTED new exams reducing oversight of healthy state-
REGIONAL BANKING
A customer-profitability strategy is starting to show some results for
COMMUNITY BANKING
The more assets a bank holds, the more fee income it makes, according to
MORTGAGES
Banks of all sizes are teaming up with former rivals to take advantage
INVESTMENT PRODUCTS
State securities regulators are revising their proposed bank broker-
Trust departments at community banks are contemplating rate increases.
CORPORATE FINANCE
BancBoston Securities' junk bond group has burgeoned.
CREDIT/DEBIT/ATMs
Meridian Enterprises is pressing new patent-infringement charges against
TECHNOLOGY
ON-LINE BANKING: Intuit and Microsoft have retooled their flagship
MARKET MONITOR
Upstate New York banking stocks surged in the latest outbreak of merger
WEEKLY REPORT: INTERNATIONAL
Georgia, the former Soviet republic, has made a dramatic comeback. Now