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Greenville, in particular, is attracting financial institutions enticed by its growing population and healthy business climate.

An article in the Los Angeles Times provides an opportunity for bank executives to address the underlying problems. Instead comes a focus on damage control.

Proposals submitted to several of the largest U.S. banks seek stronger commitments on reducing financing for the fossil-fuel industry and 2030 greenhouse gas emission targets.

The Dallas-based company is rolling out a national investment banking unit as it seeks to serve clients through the entire business life cycle. It has also promoted three top-level executives into new roles.

The people leading the bank's strategy for EMEA are placing greater emphasis on real-time processing, digital assets, and emerging contactless technology.

The bank establishes a committee with the express purpose of addressing employee misconduct. But as the problem of unauthorized customer accounts grows, it stops meeting.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Office of Inspector General found a number of weaknesses in the agency's cyber risk examination program.

Bank of Montreal, which just completed its $16.3 billion takeover of Bank of the West, expects to be able to gain share even in U.S. markets where the firm only has a sparse branch presence.

A plan released Wednesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was more aggressive than anticipated, leading to share price declines at Synchrony Financial, Capital One and Bread Financial. "This skews toward the worst-case scenario," one analyst wrote.

In a reversal from five years ago, six of the eight biggest U.S. banks by branch count now offer the loans, which observers see as safer alternatives to payday loans.

The current interest rate environment advantages banks over their fintech competitors. That can't be allowed to stifle invention.

The scandal's roots stretch back more than a decade. In a corporate environment that doesn't welcome bad news, problems fester.

The Long Island company is closing 69% of the retail home lending offices previously operated by Flagstar Bancorp. New York Community recently acquired Flagstar for $2.6 billion.

In this month's roundup of American Banker's favorite stories: Development of central bank digital currencies gains momentum, ongoing lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase and PNC address the banks' liability and more.

The international messaging system is participating in projects that test or develop central bank digital currencies, with a goal of making them interoperable.

One of the few crypto companies to receive a banking charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Anchorage is putting more people and resources into compliance.

Corporate-governance and ethics experts offer tips to avoid management wrongdoing at all levels of a bank.

As the phony-accounts scandal is brewing in 2014, the executive who functions as the top cop inside Wells Fargo gets shown the door.

The giant bank's woes, and punishment, began years ago — and still linger today. Revisiting the saga's origins now yields several important lessons.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data-access rule could create an uneven playing field because banks and credit unions are examined by regulators but hundreds of nonbank fintechs are not.