Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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The California company will report a quarterly loss after credit issues surfaced in its technology lending division. Opus had expressed an interest earlier this year to expand the business after making a key hire.
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U.S. Bank is using geolocation to make sure customers' card transactions are approved when they are traveling. It is just one example of how more companies are asking customers to let them track their phones.
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Bank of America's chief financial officer on Tuesday downplayed the odds of a Wells-Fargo-style phony-account scandal at B of A, contending that it does not use hard-charging sales tactics.
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The demographics of our country are changing. If businesses arent figuring out a way to change, too, they risk being left behind.
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Opus Bank in Irvine, Calif., said Monday that it expects to report a third-quarter loss of 5 cents a share, reflecting $38.8 million in chargeoffs tied to eight loans in its technology, commercial and specialty lending divisions.
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Northwest Bancshares in Warren, Pa., has agreed to buy Winans Insurance & Employee Benefits in Warren.
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WSFS Financial in Wilmington, Del., has bought the assets of West Capital Management in Philadelphia.
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As a result of the SEC's latest reforms, today's money-market funds are very different products than their precrisis predecessors. Calls for additional layers of burdensome regulation over this industry are unwarranted.
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Bank of America, the second-biggest U.S. lender by assets, said third-quarter profit rose 7.3%, beating analysts estimates, as revenue from fixed-income trading was better than predicted and expenses fell.
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Dorothy Savarese, the head of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank in Massachusetts, seeks a financial system where the rules encourage community banks and big banks to do the things that they are best at.
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Thanks to smart investments and relentless cutting of assets and businesses, Citi is looking leaner and healthier than it has in a long time.
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Wells Fargos freshly installed CEO made clear Friday that he wants to chart a new course following the revelation that thousands of employees opened phony accounts. But Tim Sloan made few promises about what the megabank will eventually look like.
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Profit at Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach in California improved in the third quarter, due to loan growth and increased securities income.
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Apart from the usual queries about prospects for loan growth and strategies for controlling costs, bank executives better be prepared this earnings season for probing questions about in-branch sales practices and how they are compensating front-line employees.
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Concerns about bad oil loans have begun to fade, but other credit problems could be lurking. Several big banks reported a notable uptick in provisions for consumer loan losses.
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BancorpSouth has extended the deadline to complete two acquisitions until the end of 2017 as it seeks to resolve a recent CRA downgrade.
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First Bancshares in Hattiesburg, Miss., has agreed to buy two banks in Alabama and Florida and it announced plans for a capital-raise to fund the deals.
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Consumers voted with their feet in September, as the embattled bank said Friday that new checking accounts were down by 25% from a year earlier.
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Community banks need profit and diversification opportunities, while marketplace lenders may find mergers to be the easiest route into the banking system.
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JPMorgan Chase is conducting a "deep dive" investigation into its cross-selling practices, in light of the fallout from the phony account scandal at Wells Fargo.
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