Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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With low rates tempting more home owners to refinance and relaxed down payment requirements spurring more home sales, bankers are more optimistic about mortgage lending than they have been in some time.
April 27 -
Another quick illustration of why bank customers and regulators are demanding that the U.S. move to a real-time payments system.
April 27 -
Carolina Premier Bank in Charlotte, N.C., has recruited Timothy C. Key to be its new chief lending officer and Carrington S. "Cash" Canada as its chief credit officer.
April 27 -
Signature Bank in New York is poised to start lending to city governments. The move is well-timed; the wind-down of GE Capital removes a competitor and provides Signature with a chance to buy assets and hire salespeople.
April 27 -
Sun Bancorp in Mount Laurel, N.J., swung to a profit thanks to branch closings and other expense reductions.
April 27 -
Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., missed first-quarter expectations as merger-related and streamlining expenses negated many of the benefits from recently completed acquisitions.
April 27 -
As a pawnbroker for over 26 years and a former president of the National Pawnbrokers Association, I am alarmed and dismayed by the recent wave of banks terminating their relationships with pawnbrokers.
April 27 -
Abandoned homes in New York City that are stuck in foreclosure proceedings jumped 38% rise in 2014. State officials are pushing for legislation to make banks and mortgage lenders more responsible.
April 27 -
Discover, the only major U.S. card network that did not support Apple Pay at the mobile wallet's launch, has inked a deal with Apple, eliminating some of the fragmentation in the mobile wallet's deployment.
April 27 -
Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit chain of colleges under fire in the last year for leaving students with unsustainable debt levels and lackluster job prospects, announced it's shutting down its remaining 28 campuses effective Monday.
April 27 -
Banks can ditch their reputations as fuddy-duddy workplaces by helping millennial employees connect with the social mission driving the company and giving them plenty of opportunities to advance their careers.
April 27 -
Martin Tobias is upset that JPMorgan Chase closed his accounts this week after a news report about his business connections to the marijuana industry, but he says he partly understands the pressure banks are under.
April 24 -
Freddie Mac has planned its first Extended Timeline Pool Offering, the government-sponsored entity announced this week.
April 24 -
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The McLean, Va., credit card lender is offering steep discounts to Uber riders, even though the promotion stands to hurt some of the bank's commercial borrowers.
April 24 -
The sharp decline in oil prices has tempered John Allison's enthusiasm for buying banks in the Lone Star State or even making loans there.
April 24 -
A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week, including thoughts on derisking, biometric technology and Paul Volckers proposal to reform the regulatory system.
April 24 -
The Pennsylvania company is keen on buying a bank with $1 billion or more in assets to soundly cross a threshold that would bring with it more regulatory scrutiny.
April 24 -
HSBC Holdings executives said little about the future of their U.S. bank and other underperforming businesses at a sometimes contentious annual shareholder meeting Friday.
April 24 -
Provident Financial Services in Iselin, N.J., defended narrowly missing earnings expectations by calling its credit and pricing approaches "prudent" and disciplined.
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