Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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PNC has put the historic Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters building of Riggs National Bank on the market.
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The $806 million-asset company and the FDIC entered into a consent order related to AML and Bank Secrecy Act controls, staffing and administration, Banesco said Friday.
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These types of schemes rarely pay off in the end, and they certainly never represent an efficient use of funding. Banks would, therefore, be well-advised to make some immediate price-structure changes.
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The New York State Department of Financial Services has approved three banks to convert to state charters.
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The chief marketing officer of Wilshire Bancorp (WIBC) in Los Angeles has resigned after just three months in the role.
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PNC Financial Services Group (PNC) in Pittsburgh has agreed to pay $89 million to Freddie Mac in order to resolve repurchase obligations on loans sold to the government-sponsored entity.
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Reduced lending, fewer leaders in times of crisis and less innovation thats what wed have if only the biggest banks were allowed to survive.
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Colorado's top banking regulator the only state supervisor to get overruled by the Federal Reserve Board on a failure is retiring.
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Royal Bank of Canada is putting its leadership in the hands of David McKay, whose consumer-lending experience is a departure from the investment-banking background that propelled Gordon Nixon to chief executive officer 12 years ago.
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NewStar Financial Inc. (NEWS), the lender backed by private-equity firms Corsair Capital LLC and Capital Z Partners Management LLC, is extending its sale process into 2014, three people familiar with the matter said.
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The $7.3 million-asset company said late Thursday that it will buy a professional-services practice from EBS-RMSCO, a Lifetime Healthcare unit, for an undisclosed price.
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The FTC next year will host a series of seminars to examine the privacy implications of three new areas of technology, including alternative scoring.
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Citigroup and Wells Fargo were accused of discriminatory mortgage lending by the city of Los Angeles, which seeks damages for reduced property tax revenue and the costs of maintaining foreclosed properties.
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Metropolitan National Bank in New York is changing its name and ditching its national charter.
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The Federal Reserve Board has ended a regulatory action against PathFinder Bancorp (PBHC) in Lake Oswego, N.Y.
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The chairmen of BNY Mellon and Signature Bank tackled cyber threats, the future of interest rates and "too big to fail" in a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the industry.
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Bank mergers of equals are on the rise, but buyers are giving up their brands to make them happen.
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The Federal Reserve Board says it followed a proper system for establishing debit interchange caps and fully abided by the Durbin Amendment's requirement for merchants to have two unaffiliated networks to choose from for routing debit transactions.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray said down payment standards are among the falsehoods rumored to be in the agencys mortgage regulation that takes effect Jan. 10.
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The ongoing debate over community bank consolidation also extends to big shareholders. While most prefer to see deals, there are a few who argue that well-run banks can stay independent.
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