Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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A Dallas-area investment group has applied to become a bank holding company so it could acquire a small bank outside of Austin.
June 15 -
If a bank doesn't disclose what it's not charging, someone might assume it is charging that fee without disclosing. Pew Charitable Trusts made that assumption, and says consumers could too.
June 15 -
We need a system in which credit bureaus are required to sell consumer data at a uniform price to any company with permission to access it, instead of pricing out perceived competitive threats or withholding the information.
June 15 -
Community bank Investors Bancorp Inc. agreed to acquire Piraeus Bank S.A.'s Marathon Banking Corp. unit for $135 million in cash, a move that doubles its presence in New York.
June 15 -
A senior Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official brought the agency's charm offensive to the West Coast, praising bankers and non-bank executives for providing financial services to poor consumers.
June 14 -
More than a year following its chief executive's departure, Pacific Commerce Bank in Los Angeles has found someone to take the helm.
June 14 -
HomeStreet (HMST) of Seattle has extended a housing assistance program to the Spokane, Wash., area.
June 14 -
More banks may decide to sell if they conclude Congress will not renew the capital gains tax cut, Deloitte's Sharon Weinstein says.
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Student borrowers said private student loan debt is hampering their ability to get married, start a family, buy a house or even work in their field of choice.
June 14 -
A planned merger between two southern California banks has yet to close a year after the deal was announced because regulators have yet to approve it.
June 14 -
The Birmingham bank is adding to its new line of financial services for low-income and other underbanked customers.
June 14 -
The more than $500 million that investors pumped into banks in the Tar Heel State has turned marginal players into consolidators, provided a way to absorb failures and instilled new discipline.
June 14 -
The 2008 bailout program may have worked as intended, but Wells Fargo's Former CEO still insists it did more harm than good.
June 14 -
Foreclosure filings in May exceeded the 200,000 mark for the first time in three months as more servicers moved to take possession of real estate collateralized by delinquent home mortgages.
June 14 -
U.S. consumers owed $8.995 trillion on their residential loans at the end of March-the lowest debt figure recorded in almost five years, according to new figures compiled by National Mortgage News and the Quarterly Data Report.
June 14 -
A half billion dollars in PE funding has breathed life into North Carolina banking, raising questions about whether community bankers nationwide should be teaming up with Mitt Romney's old industry.
June 14 -
The Treasury Department has successfully sold off its shares in seven more community banks as part of its ongoing effort to wind down the four-year-old Troubled Asset Relief Program.
June 14 -
Many so-called consumer advocates doubt consumers can make responsible decisions about credit and believe they should be "protected" from certain financial products. We did not sense this sort of patronizing viewpoint from the new agency.
June 14 -
Foreclosure filings - default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions - were reported on 205,990 U.S. properties in May, an increase of 9% from April but still down 4% from the year-ago period.
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Crestmark Bancorp of Troy, Mich., has purchased the working capital loan portfolio from First Citizens Bank and has entered into partnership with the Raleigh, N.C., company.
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