Retail & Commercial

Facing a lawsuit from a disgruntled investor, the Arkansas company has released additional information about how it arrived at the $919 million price it’s paying for Happy Bancshares.

Bank of America is hiring thousands of employees this quarter and investing heavily in talent and technology headed into the new year, CEO Brian Moynihan says.

Brent Huisman routinely solicited and received handouts from auto auction companies, the Federal Reserve said in an enforcement action that bans him from the banking industry. The gifts included Super Bowl tickets and luxury hotel stays, according to a lawsuit that Huisman eventually paid $275,000 to settle.

The company says that marketing its deposit products could help build deeper customer relationships, particularly with student loan borrowers. “We're not just a credit card issuer,” CEO Roger Hochschild told analysts.

The $85 million acquisition of Metro Phoenix Bank would more than double Alerus Financial’s loans and deposits in the nation’s fifth-largest city.

With prices increasing faster than they have since the 1990s, the Federal Reserve appears poised to tighten monetary policy. Top industry executives are worried about the chances of either a recession or runaway inflation, depending on whether the central bank moves too quickly or too slowly.

Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu identified eight practices that he described as pro-consumer. While some banks have already acted on many of the reforms, they are by no means standard across the industry.

The card network's new cryptocurrency advisory service aims to help financial institutions catch up with companies like Square and PayPal by spotting opportunities to support stablecoins, nonfungible tokens and central bank digital currencies.

The proceeds will support Silvergate’s network that facilitates cryptocurrency transactions and a leveraged lending product that provides loans collateralized by bitcoin.

Current regulations barring out-of-state banks from siphoning deposits from local communities are effectively toothless, as the experience in Miami has shown.