Can a green marketing strategy actually be sustainable? Environmental friendliness not just for tree-huggers anymore. It certainly can't hurt the planet. But evidence that it will win banks many customers is still tough to find.

Banks taking on additional interest-rate risk in light of the Federal Reserve's forecasts that a low-rate environment will continue should remember they're predictions, not guarantees, and someday, rates will rise.

The return of the chief revenue officer; Susquehanna is creating the position, a novelty in the banking industry, to encompass the nonbank units it owns and bolster cross-selling for the multifaceted company.

FirstBank in Colorado unveiled an advertising campaign over the summer promising "Mortgages Made Easy," which focuses on the process of obtaining a mortgage, rather than the more common tactic of highlighting rates.

Capital Access Network gives lenders more, and more frequent, data points to strengthen their overall credit modeling to, and relationships with, their small- and medium-sized business borrowers.

With backstage tours and VIP tickets, MasterCard takes selling the experience to a new level with its new Priceless Cities rewards program.

Alex Sanchez says now is not the time to drive foreign deposits offshore: the proposal made to require all banks located within the U.S. to report interest payments to nonresident alien depositors would be detrimental to economic growth in local communities.

Nearly half of U.S. banks and thrifts with $2 billion to $10 billion in assets had lower net income in 2010. In the aggregate, mid-tiers earned just $935 million last year.

• Link: The Top Mid-Tier Banks

With trouble spots lacking potential acquirers, M&A activity in most markets is slow.

FinTech Innovation Lab in New York bites its thumb at Silicon Valley; Cynthia Williams, EVP and Chief communications officer at BB&T, takes on corporate branding; Carlos Loumiet, formerly of Hamilton Bank, is deemed entitled to recover legal fees from the OCC.

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