Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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IberiaBank Corp. (IBKC) said its president and chief executive has set up a plan to sell up to 11% of his stock in the Lafayette, La., company.
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Citigroup's (NYSE:C) board has added Duncan Hennes, a veteran financial executive and a co-founder of consulting firm Promontory Financial Group, as an independent director.
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Even before Dodd-Frank, federal regulations had grown exponentially. The sheer quantity of the regulations is bad enough, but the complexity often confuses banks and their customers and increases compliance costs.
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The $18.4 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it will shutter 37 branches inside Chicago-area Jewel-Osco stores and a branch in downtown Minneapolis.
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The peer-to-peer lender, which has both threatened banks' traditional businesses and cultivated Wall Street ties, is now selling its loans to community banks and working with them to offer personal loans as a counter to big banks' dominance in credit cards.
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The $298 billion-asset company will continue with its recent pattern of opening smaller branches in desired markets and closing some larger, traditional branches, resulting in roughly 25 net closures, PNC spokesman Fred Solomon said Wednesday.
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EverBank Financial (EVER) in Jacksonville, Fla., has agreed to pay the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $48 million in connection with its purchase of the failed Bank of Florida in May 2010.
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SunTrust Banks (STI) has agreed to sell RidgeWorth Capital Management, its asset management business, for $245 million.
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Ten years from now, today's brick-and-mortar banks, and digital banking services, will look like quaint vestiges of a bygone era.
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MetroCorp (MCBI) in Houston hired a consultant to scout possible Chinese suitors before agreeing to sell to East West Bancorp (EWBC) in Los Angeles.
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The San Mateo, Calif., company plans to launch a new online lending platform, a sign of increasing competition among consumer-debt-consolidation lenders.
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Three collection companies used forged Wells Fargo (WFC) and U.S. Bank (USB) documents to recoup debts from defaulted borrowers, according to a complaint filed by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers.
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Tom Meuser will leave the role at the end of the year, the Sacramento Business Journal reported Tuesday. George Cook, the bank's president, will succeed him.
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CFOs gave the strength of the U.S. economy an average score of 53 out of 100 up from 49 a year ago and the highest recorded rating in the last six years, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2014 CFO Outlook survey.
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U.S. Bancorp (USB) in Minneapolis has agreed to pay $53 million to Freddie Mac to resolve mortgage-repurchase obligations.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused GE Capital Retail Bank of misleading consumers into a health care credit card product that retroactively charged exorbitant interest rates, marking the agency's first significant attempt to go after such offerings.
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Ally Bank in Midvale, Utah, plans to use simplified disclosure forms for all its banking products.
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OneMain Financial, which makes personal loans of up to $15,000, has been on the block since 2009. But Citi may be poised to overcome a key obstacle to its sale, an executive explains.
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Apollo Bancshares in Miami, Fla., has agreed to buy First Bank of Miami in Coral Gables.
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How to reconfigure retail-delivery networks to suit the next generation of customers was top of mind for bank CEOs Tuesday, even as news headlines dwell on new regulations and sluggish growth.
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