Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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First Security Group, headed by Michael Kramer, has added three executives and a board member as it digs its way out from under a regulatory consent order.
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A new report, released Wednesday, examined 382 foreclosures in California between January 2009 and October 2011 and found at least one irregularity in 99% of them.
February 16 -
Discover Financial Services, which is facing a government probe over its marketing of credit card insurance-like products, believes its relatively new practices will appease regulators, a top executive said on Thursday.
February 16 -
Large debt collection and credit reporting firms would face federal supervision for the first time under a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal issued Thursday.
February 16 -
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and FDIC Chairman Marty Gruenberg said regulators are seeking to keep community banks vibrant.
February 16 -
Fannie Mae is considering Timothy Mayopoulos, the head of a banking industry trade group and its own general counsel, as possible replacements for departing Chief Executive Michael Williams, according to The Wall Street Journal.
February 16 -
Wells Fargo says its remittance transaction volume grew at a record pace of 27% in 2011 over the prior year, thanks in part to substantial growth on the East Coast where the bank has largely finalized conversions of former Wachovia branches.
February 16 -
First National Bank of the Gulf Coast has implemented a paperless system and other improvements as it looks for its first profitable quarter.
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American Express in January reported a modest slowdown in growth in the fourth quarter, while MasterCard earlier this month said growth remained strong in the region.
February 16 -
The Center for Responsible Lending was one of 15 organizations on Thursday to receive a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
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Competition between Amex, Discover, MasterCard, PayPal and Visa is fierce and intensifying. What would Facebook's angle be if it aspired to build a broader payments business?
February 15 -
A two-year inquiry into tri-party repurchase agreements has not figured out how to fully eliminate systemic risk from this arcane market.
February 15 -
MANSFIELD, Texas – Texas Trust CU has joined Allpoint’s surcharge-free ATM network, offering members access to 43,000 ATMs.
February 15 -
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – NMW FCU will increase its full-service branches on Virginia’s Eastern Shore to three with the opening of two on the same day.
February 15 -
CapStar Bank has agreed to buy certain assets and liabilities from another Tennessee bank, making CapStar’s second acquisition in the past week.
February 15 -
An industry group's failure to expeditiously reform the workings of one of the repo market is forcing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to adopt a stronger monitoring role in the sector.
February 15 -
Of the 575 official complaints against Capital One's plan to buy ING Direct, only one stuck: The credit card lender has been a serial screw-up when it comes to getting delinquent borrowers to pay up, the Fed found.
February 15 -
Waccamaw Bankshares scored a minor victory tied to a 2010 capital infusion, though its president said the result only buys time to explore "strategic alternatives."
February 15 -
Town and Country Financial Corp. in Springfield. Ill., is combining its two bank subsidiaries that it has operated as separate entities for nearly three decades.
February 15 -
Citigroup Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $158.3 million to settle claims that its mortgage unit improperly originated Federal Housing Administration loans, a swift reminder that the massive national mortgage deal does not insulate banks from other mortgage-related claims.
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