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The bank may extend advisory service to clients with as little as $5,000 to invest; trading of the cryptocurrency has plunged.

Cost cutting and systems integrations are short-term priorities, but over time CEO Kelly King and his heir apparent, Bill Rogers, will have to exploit the combined BB&T-SunTrust's revenue potential and prove the biggest post-crisis merger was a good idea.

The banking industry could finally have answers soon on the degree of agreement between regulators reforming the Community Reinvestment Act, how they envision CRA zones of the future and other key matters.

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Federal and state policymakers wagged their fingers this week at high-cost lenders that might be looking to team with banks to evade a 36% ceiling on interest rates.

The two Democratic senators said the bureau's policy could allow companies to circumvent consumer finance laws.

The meeting scheduled for Dec. 12 will also include discussion of a proposal on the agency's definition of brokered deposits.

Issuers have started adding metal to their credit cards; banks have been “slow” to add diversity in executive ranks, filings suggest.

Thursday's hearing brought Brown and NCUA Chairman Rodney Hood face to face for the first time since an October letter in which the senator slammed some of Hood's political activities.

A day after House Democrats urged the banking agencies to unite behind a joint plan to update the Community Reinvestment Act, Senate Democrats worried that an impending proposal from the OCC and FDIC will reduce access to credit.