Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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The PayPal Prepaid MasterCard will be sold at 5,500 7-Eleven stores by the end of the year.
June 28 -
Citigroup (NYSE: C) announced two programs Thursday aimed at helping current and former members of the military with their mortgages
June 28 -
The CFPB finalized a rule Thursday that seeks to ensure that information banks give the bureau through supervision retains attorney-client privilege.
June 28 -
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has ordered Village Bank and Trust Financial in Midlothian, Va., to serve as a source of strength for its ailing bank subsidiary.
June 28 -
Persistent low rates, fierce competition and lackluster loan growth will prevent most community banks from reporting blow-out earnings growth in the second quarter. Much of the profit likely will come from purges of bad assets.
June 28 -
The prospect of better spreads at Oriental Financial Group trumps the hit to book value under its $500 million agreement to buy BBVA's unit in Puerto Rico.
June 28 -
The Government Accountability Office put new pressure on the agency to make a decision after months of foot-dragging.
June 28 -
Regulators are taking a hard look at payday lending practices, and that could give banks an unprecedented edge over storefront operators.
June 28 -
A little more than a year after saving a struggling Kansas thrift, the owners of a Chicago mortgage firm have been awarded two large grants to relocate the thrift's headquarters to the Windy City and open a large loan production office there.
June 28 -
In a report released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office flagged concerns about the rising use of appraisal management companies as well as the government's oversight of the appraisal industry.
June 28 -
RAPID CITY, S.D. — NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz told credit union executives here yesterday the agency is very close to approving a charter for a credit union that will serve the Lakota Indians, also known as the Sioux, at their Pine Ridge Reservation in Kyle.
June 28 -
Though loan competition remains fierce, most banks are unwilling to relax their underwriting policies until the economy heals.
June 28 -
Much time and energy was spent on a campaign to regulate an optional service consumers could avoid paying for. Meanwhile, mortgage securitization was going gangbusters. Priorities were perhaps misplaced.
June 28 -
The Treasury Department will receive roughly $204 million from its latest auctions selling off the preferred shares of seven financial institutions from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
June 28 -
Doug Tuttle knows all too well what goes on at struggling banks, and that is exactly why his new boss at American Momentum says he hired the industry veteran in Tampa, Fla.
June 28 -
Continuing its string of Texas acquisitions, Prosperity Bancshares in Houston announced Thursday that it is buying Community National Bank in Bellaire for $26.6 million in cash and stock.
June 28 -
During the boom, accounting rules kept banks from building thicker buffers against losses. This left them in a weaker position when the crisis hit. It's time to fix the mistake.
June 28 -
Google announced revisions to its mobile wallet that make it a more palatable choice for the sale of digital goods.
June 28 -
Dodd-Frank-required study finds borrowers are younger and seniors are increasingly taking out bigger loans.
June 28 -
First Niagara Financial Group (FNFG) has sold $3.1 billion of mortgage-backed securities to reduce risk exposure and improve its capital ratios.
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