Consumer banking
Following a positive industry reaction to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Qualified Mortgage regulation, bankers are feeling good about the prospects that the related QRM rule will bring additional flexibility.
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Banks including Wells Fargo and KeyBank are helping online customers predict their short-term cash flows, in an effort to increase satisfaction.
January 23 -
Federal regulators are partnering up to take a close look at whether banks provide collections agencies with sufficient evidence to back up demands that consumers repay debts. The action could result in a revamping of the multi-billion dollar business.
January 22
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Citigroup's Michael picks a team much like him, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau weighs in on force-placed insurance and banks release good-news, bad-news earnings reports.
January 21 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was set to unleash an additional series of rules Thursday dictating how mortgage servicers interact with homeowners. The mandates are likely to come as highly unwelcome news to the industry.
January 17 -
The new app gives users iPhone, Android access to bank accounts. CEO Steve Streit hopes it will also shake up the consumer banking market and rejuvenate his company's flagging image as an innovator.
January 16 -
Banks, subprime lenders and borrowers had varying reactions to the agency's long-awaited ruling on qualified mortgages.
January 14 -
It's far better for a few foreclosure squatters and crooked bankers to get off than to undermine due process, argues Executive Editor Marc Hochstein.
January 11 -
Many Hurricane Sandy-damaged businesses are back in business with one big caveat: they still can't accept credit or debit cards. That's put a focus on new payments technologies able to withstand natural disasters.
January 10 -
Shelter Insurance joins the growing list of insurers that are unwinding their banks amid mounting costs related to Dodd-Frank.
January 8
