BROOKFIELD, Wis. - (11/29/05) -- Fiserv said its Investment SupportServices unit has acquired more than 1,000 self-directed IRAaccounts with $48 million of assets from Arrowhead Trust Inc., awholly owned CUSO of Arrowhead CU. The accounts held bothtraditional investments, such as mutual funds, and alternativeinvestments, like private equity, real estate, mortgages and trustdeeds. Fiserv is the largest independent custodian that administersboth types of assets in retirement accounts, and has 320,000accounts and custodian accounts with $38 billion inassets
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Lake Shore Bancorp in Western New York has reached a "standstill agreement" with the Stilwell Group, which has promised not to force a merger or sale in the next three years.
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Swiss banking giant UBS Group received federal approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to convert its $1.6 trillion-asset UBS Bank USA from a Utah-chartered industrial bank to a national charter.
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Early industry reaction to the Federal Reserve's Basel III proposals points to potential capital relief for banks, though stakeholders say the complexity of the changes makes their overall impact unclear.
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Financial institutions that delay or fail to take this leap risk losing customers and revenue, said speakers at the inaugural On-Chain Executive Summit.
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CISA and Microsoft urge organizations to secure endpoint management systems as threat actors increasingly seek to disrupt operations with wiper malware.
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Piermont Bank hired Dennis Day for a new executive role focused on payments; the American Bankers Association announced the global expansion of its widely used Fraud Contact Directory; MC Bankshares moved one step closer to finalizing its sale to an investor group; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
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