Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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Astoria Financial in Lake Success, N.Y., topped Wall Street expectations despite a drop in revenue. The $15.5 billion-asset company reported a 39% decrease in net income from a year earlier, to $19.3 million.
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Convergent Revenue Cycle Management Inc., a national healthcare revenue cycle management provider, has announced that Mark Schanck has been promoted to company president.
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Bill Emerson, chief executive of Quicken Loans, said at a recent conference that the threat of government probes and a lack of regulatory clarity are making FHA lending less attractive.
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Navient Corp. released Q1 financial results on Thursday that include $830 million of student loan purchases, $300 million of common share repurchases and the acquisition of a new asset recovery and business process outsourcing firm focused on state and local public sector markets.
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The company will consider annual elections for all directors after investors passed a non-binding resolution urging for a change.
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The owner of Green Tree Servicing LLC has responded to the settlement announced this week with the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Banking regulators will never conclude that regulation is actually hurting community banks until they study the issue and come to that conclusion on their own.
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At first glance Cardinal Financial in McLean, Va., blew away earnings expectations, rising 220% in the first quarter from the same time last year.
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Deutsche Bank AG is poised to settle U.S. and U.K. investigations into rigging of benchmark interest rates for about 2 billion euros ($2.14 billion), according to a person briefed on the matter.
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Small-business lender Funding Circle, which has operations in the United States and the United Kingdom, has received $150 million in new investment.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement attorneys have pulled back on new investigations in order to clear out a slew of pending cases, according to multiple current and former officials at the agency.
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WASHINGTON House lawmakers clashed this week over a bill making changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would cap the agency's budget in coming years.
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Texas Capital Bancshares in Dallas reported a higher first-quarter profit on an increase in total loans and heightened demand for refinancing home loans.
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Strong organic loan growth and a recent acquisition of a small Virginia bank combined to power Eagle Bancorp to another record profit in the first quarter.
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Stock Yards Bancorp in Louisville, Ky., reported much better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter one the strength of higher mortgage revenue and net interest income.
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The banking company is the latest to flirt with a threshold that promises added regulatory burden. But a pause from more acquisitions should also give management a chance to brush up on deal integration before making an even larger acquisition.
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The San Francisco bank has added three more young technology firms to its accelerator program, which is aimed at adapting products from outside the financial services world for creative uses in banking.
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As banks have largely ceded the market for government-backed loans to nonbank lenders and servicers, it's fallen on Ginnie Mae to be sure that these nonbanks can meet their obligations to bondholders. It's a huge concern for President Ted Tozer, who says the company does not have the resources or manpower to examine these firms' finances.
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First Midwest Bank in Itasca, Ill., increased profits in the first quarter thanks to higher lending income, but fell short of heightened expectations set after two major acquisitions last year.
April 22 - California
A division of the payments firm ACI Worldwide will pay $185,000 to California authorities to resolve allegations that it violated numerous state licensing requirements.
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