Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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Jacobs Asset Management, which expressed frustration over a slow turnaround at MidSouth, said it could launch a proxy battle at next year's annual meeting.
August 17 -
Thieves stole more than $13 million from an Indian bank just days after an FBI warning; Fed’s special oversight restrictions from 2015 lifted.
August 17 -
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., says he is concerned that banks are freezing accounts of customers if they aren't providing citizenship information.
August 16 -
Banks and credit unions — especially smaller ones — are being told to brace themselves for a wave of ATM raids by cybercrooks. Industry officials are uncertain what information the red alert is based on, but experts say swift, sophisticated thefts are very doable.
August 16 -
Ratings firms and mutual funds are seeing greater value in community banks because of their simplicity and local connections.
August 16 -
BBVA Compass said on Wednesday that it was partnering with the broker-dealer Brean Capital to offer a variety of capital and investment banking services for community banks and correspondent banks.
August 16 -
Happy Money and Arcus have joined a pack of fintechs and online lenders urging customers to forgo expensive credit card debt, in this case calling it a "sad spend."
August 16 -
The division, created after Sunflower hired lenders away from other banks, will focus on asset-based lending to middle-market companies and investors.
August 15 -
The veteran banking attorney, who also worked at the FDIC and OCC, passed away Tuesday following a battle with cancer.
August 15 -
It's a fickle industry, given the uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act and government reimbursements, but opportunities in lending to medical practices and device manufacturers make it hard to resist, bankers say.
August 15 -
Banks — especially smaller ones — are being told to brace themselves for a wave of ATM raids by cybercrooks. Industry officials are uncertain what information the red alert is based on, but experts say swift, sophisticated thefts are very doable.
August 15 -
Mark D’Arcy was in charge of regulatory reviews and annual stress tests; many see 10-plus point gains following removal of non-loan collections reports.
August 15 -
Legacy tech vendors have traditionally offered decadelong contracts. But given constant change in the industry, small banks today should push for three-year deals, a bank CEO says.
August 14 -
The companies had been unable to secure regulatory approval for the deal, which was announced a year ago.
August 14 -
The card issuer Synchrony will continue to manage three cards for the national hardware chain. The timing is good as Synchrony recently lost a deal issuing cards for Walmart.
August 14 -
Keith Mestrich, who runs the union-founded bank, plans to use a more liquid stock to pursue acquisitions in cities such as Boston, Seattle and Los Angeles.
August 14 -
For NCR and Diebold Nixdorf's leadership, spotting the fintechs nipping at its heels is the easy part. Charting a path as a half-century old market changes into something entirely new will be much harder.
August 14 -
Anand Selva, a longtime Asia hand, will head up U.S. consumer banking; several startups are backed by traditional card issuer veterans, such as former Citi CEO Vikram Pandit.
August 14 -
BayCom in Walnut Creek, Calif., would have a bigger presence in the Albuquerque area after buying Bethlehem Financial.
August 13 -
It bothered Jeannie Tarkenton, founder of Funding University, that too many kids from lower-income families didn't graduate because they lacked just a few thousand dollars and couldn't get a loan.
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