Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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Old Line Bancshares (OLBK) in Bowie, Md., reported higher third-quarter earnings as loan growth and reduced expenses fueled revenue.
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First Banks, a $6.5 billion-asset company, posted third-quarter earnings of $8.5 million, compared with a net loss of $2.1 million a year earlier.
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Two shopping experiences and a well-timed commercial from Isis indicate tapping a payment-capable phone against a reader may, in fact, be so much easier than swiping a plastic card so long as merchants have complete buy-in.
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Citigroup is revitalizing a longstanding rewards program, in an effort to stand out in the increasingly competitive field of card issuers.
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Top regulators at the Fed, SEC, OCC, FDIC, CFPB and NCUA are warning that a Senate bill pending in the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would undermine agency rulemaking authority.
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Thanksgiving and the ensuing shopping sprees are a few weeks away, but a group of merchants who accept the digital currency Bitcoin are planning their own Black Friday before then.
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The nation's top home lender has been mailing letters and refund checks to nearly 10,000 borrowers acknowledging that they received Federal Housing Administration loans when they would have qualified for less-expensive conventional financing.
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Bankers in the Northeast must remain flexible and ready to roll up their sleeves in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. That was the sweeping message from bankers from areas along the Gulf Coast and Florida who have been through a fair share of catastrophic storms.
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Bank of New York Mellon (BK) is the latest bank to announce plans to redeem its outstanding trust-preferred securities.
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Authorities have charged real estate developer Michael Pouls, whose mansion was featured on the TV show "Teen Cribs," with defrauding National Penn and the former Wilmington Trust.
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JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and others in the path of Hurricane Sandy continued Monday to calibrate their responses to the storm.
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Learning to tap into the more creative right hemisphere of my brain enabled me to think in a unique manner about both the problems and opportunities facing my bank.
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Because its customers have already gravitated toward remote check capture and online wire transfers, business is carrying on fairly normally at The Westchester Bank as Hurricane Sandy approaches.
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Old National Bancorp (ONB) in Evansville, Ind., posted higher third-quarter income from a year earlier as it cut noninterest expenses.
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Agencies based in Washington were mostly closed in anticipation of the storm, but officials said where possible support for banks and examiners would be made available.
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Hurricane Sandy, which is bearing down on the mid-Atlantic all the way up to New England, is expected to delay thousands of mortgage closings on Monday and Tuesday at the very least.
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CFS Bancorp (CITZ) in Munster, Ind., reported that its third-quarter income climbed from a year ago as it cut noninterest expenses and lowered its nonperforming assets.
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Earnings rose 40%, to $21.3 million, from a year earlier, HomeStreet Bank said Monday.
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Comptroller of the Currency Tom Curry said the agency is ready to "take action" against banks that lower provisions solely to boost short-term profits.
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Kelly S. King, the chairman and chief executive of BB&T (BBT), has been appointed to the Federal Advisory Council.
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