Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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Both sides of Wells Fargo's $142 million settlement over its fake-accounts scandal made last-ditch efforts to salvage the class-action pact after a federal judge voiced misgivings about some of its terms.
May 18 -
Attractive demographics, a large supply of startups that appeared built to sell and a surplus of smaller banks struggling with high expenses have combined to make the Mid-Atlantic one of the most active regions for mergers and acquisitions.
May 17 -
Helping students, expanding opportunities for immigrant communities and other ways credit unions are giving back to the communities they serve.
May 17 -
Cashing in digital currency for government-backed paper may not be so easy; JPM CEO is taken to task by shareholders for his close ties to President Trump.
May 17 -
Numerated Growth Technologies has a platform that lets banks make lending decisions in as little as five minutes. The spinoff will be run by Dan O'Malley, Eastern's former chief digital officer.
May 17 -
In an extensive interview, Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker talks about the challenges facing community banks, the biggest threat to the financial system and the possibility of interest rate hikes later this year.
May 16 -
Bank of America is giving its "erica" chatbot more time to learn the nuances of language and banking basics. A profanity filter is one recent addition.
May 16 -
Along with asset and membership milestones, the credit union celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016.
May 16 -
Banks have resisted the need to switch their core systems, but how long can a financial institution continue to operate on a foundation of dust?
May 16 -
The $489 million acquisition is among the ten biggest bank M&A deals announced this year.
May 16 -
The fact that the Troubled Asset Relief Program made billions is of no help to the thousands of banks that suffered, and are still suffering, from the grossly unfair rollout.
May 16 -
The Silicon Valley lender that caters to affluent millennials has ambitions to become a one-stop shopping destination for financial services.
May 16 -
The Minnesota company recently announced that it would stop selling auto loans since credit quality concerns have slowed investor demand, but it is unclear whether its plan to keep all its car loans on its books is less risky.
May 15 -
Lakeland Bank in Oak Ridge, N.J., found itself deluged by hundreds of angry tweets and Facebook posts Monday after a former bank executive cited pressure from a top House Republican in her resignation.
May 15 -
Federal regulators are early in the process of deciding whether to broaden credit unions' access to capital markets, but banking lobbyists have seen enough to argue that it would let credit unions skirt business-lending limits.
May 15 -
Assisting members of the military, opening long-awaited student-run branches, plotting new HQ facilities and more.
May 15 -
The company also said it believes there are no regulatory obstacles that will derail its planned acquisition of Astoria Financial.
May 15 -
Wells Fargo may have opened as many as 3.5 million fraudulent accounts in the last 15 years, according to consumers who are trying to beef up a settlement with the bank over abusive sales practices.
May 12 -
Construction lending could make a comeback if bankers persuade Congress to reform capital and other complicated rules on so-called high volatility CRE loans. But will regulators go for it?
May 12 -
The Federal Reserve is asking Sterling to address deficiencies tied to its collection, verification and reporting of CRA data from 2014 to 2016.
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