Insurance

The Alabama bank has named one of its own to head up the company’s property and casualty insurance business, and it has made a key hire in its health care banking group.

Colonial Savings founder James S. DuBose died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 93.

Numerous business sectors are urging lawmakers to act quickly to extend the National Flood Insurance Program before a crucial deadline next week.

The San Francisco bank will immediately begin winding down its marketing of personal insurance products and plans to exit the business for good during the first quarter of next year.

United Nations Federal Credit Union and two others have consented to pay $1.47 million for offering, marketing and underwriting unlicensed credit and debit card-based life insurance programs.

The House approved a five-year extension of the National Flood Insurance Program on Tuesday, but it remains unclear whether the Senate will seek to pursue its own bill. The program is due to expire Dec. 8.

The company hired Kevin Thompson, a CFO with big-bank experience, to take over its top financial post. Once a fast-growing bank, Opus has spent recent months cutting costs and exiting certain business lines.

The biggest thing going for recent mobile apps launched by Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase may not be any digital innovation associated with them.

Metronome, the brainchild of Jeff Garzik, may appeal to banks as the world's first "cross-chain" cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrencies will not gain widespread traction with corporations and governments as long as there remain crucial questions about their volatility, risk, volume and shadowy affiliations.

TCU Insurance Agency acquires Winey Insurance Agency, adds clients.

Cryptocurrencies will not gain widespread traction with corporations and governments as long as there remain crucial questions about their volatility, risk, volume and shadowy affiliations.

While the House disaster relief bill would provide $16 billion in debt relief for the National Flood Insurance Program, it does not include a Trump administration proposal to ban new construction in flood-prone areas.

Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan took heat from Senate Democrats, who questioned his fitness for the job, the bank's use of mandatory arbitration clauses and even whether its charter should be revoked.

The House passed a bill Thursday making it easier to obtain private flood insurance policies, but moments later the Senate took a pass on the legislation.

The sale of the $1.4 billion-asset Premium Assignment Corp. to IPFS is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

Services will be offered throughout Texas, and plans are underway to expand into Colorado and Utah.

The Cincinnati company has agreed to acquire Epic Insurance Solutions in Louisville, Ky., as it continues to build out its fee-based lines of business.

Banks should not be fatalistic about the threats posed by tech companies in financial services. Incumbents still hold the upper hand.

The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was created after 9/11 to serve as a crucial federal backstop for commercial real estate insurers, but an analysis of alternatives to fund the program reveals the continued challenges of measuring and predicting terror risk.