Consumer banking
The deal with private equity firm KKR follows an earlier announced sale of $1.3 billion in medical office loans. The Columbus, Georgia-based company has said it's "proactively optimizing the balance sheet" to position itself for long-term growth.
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The real threat is from undercapitalized banks, and regulators must require large banks to have enough capital to eliminate that threat.
August 9 -
Bankers say regulatory burden, rising costs and intensifying competition will reignite a drive for scale and spur dealmaking provided interest rates level off and the economic outlook improves.
August 8
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India's Unified Payments Interface has been an extraordinary success. The Fed should take careful note of how the system came to dominate the Indian economy.
August 7 -
Kansas Banking Commissioner David Herndon told American Banker that his agency declared Heartland Tri-State Bank insolvent because of a "very sudden" event that crippled the bank financially.
August 4 -
Generative artificial intelligence could make it possible for borrowers to understand how their behavior reflects their creditworthiness, and create better outcomes for everyone.
August 4 -
Banks locked in funding by offering more enticing rates on certificates of deposit last quarter, but rebuilding liquidity came at a cost. Competition isn't dying down either, with a couple of credit unions floating 6% CD rates.
August 1 -
More than 1,000 users reported problems making payments on Tuesday before complaint volumes tapered around midday, according to DownDetector, a site that collects user outage reports. The internal network disruption comes on the heels of another Zelle outage JPMorgan Chase took responsibility for seven days ago.
August 1 -
The racially targeted mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022 has renewed conversations about whether banks have a duty to help segregated, impoverished communities that were shaped in part by discriminatory lending practices. What do banks owe the Black community, and what influence could they have?
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Gateway First Bank, a former nonbank home lender, rode the pandemic era's mortgage wave to No. 1 on American Banker's latest list of top-performing banks based on full-year 2022 data. Now it has to cope with the housing market slowdown.
July 31
