Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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Jim McMahon may have been a master at the Super Bowl Shuffle dance, but the former Chicago Bears quarterback apparently was less skilled as a bank director.
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The luxury retailer Neiman Marcus is now accepting the Discover (DFS) credit card at is 42 namesake stores and its Bergdorf Goodman stores in New York.
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Green Bancorp CEO Geoff Greenwade wants to buy more banks, which he hopes will ultimately make the Houston bank more attractive to buyers.
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Equity Bancshares in Wichita, Kan., plans to merge its two banking units to reduce expenses.
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The city says the bank's inaction has blighted neighborhoods, but U.S. Bank insists it is suing the wrong party.
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Much more can be done with proven strategies like short sales, home leaseback programs and refinancing for underwater borrowers.
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The first surprise was learning that billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg even has a mortgage. The second was finding out that he pays an interest rate of just 1.05%.
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Fueled by strong loan growth, Comerica (CMA) in Dallas reported earnings of $142 million in the second quarter, up roughly 49% from the same period a year earlier.
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Many of the biggest banks have hiked their checking account fees in recent months. But others have held steady, and some have even changed their minds and lowered prices. Click through for examples.
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The regulator's recent report highlights supposedly high-priority concerns about small banks without mentioning the size, concentration and real risks of the megabanks.
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In the United States, outlining a different narrative about what happened in the financial crisis opens one to political attack.
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The credit card industry's proposed deal to settle long-pending retailer lawsuits set insiders chattering, divided over how much each side won and lost in the deal.
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A group of investors led by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has agreed to invest $4.8 million in a Redwood City, Calif., payments network that lets use retailers' gift cards to buy goods and services from other merchants.
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Westamerica (WABC) in San Rafael, Calif., reported that its second-quarter earnings fell slightly after loans and fee income declined.
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The central bank has brought back a process scrapped in the late 1990s, where it will review preliminary merger plans of untested buyers pursuing unusual deals.
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Out-of-work Ohio residents whose unemployment payments are loaded onto prepaid cards will no longer be able to use their cards when their balances fall below zero.
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Directors and officers liability coverage is an unpopular topic of conversation at board meetings. But directors who shirk their responsibilities in this area may one day find their claims denied.
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Citigroup's second-quarter income fell but was untainted by the scandals surrounding big rivals.
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