Banking

Chase and Royal Bank of Canada are among banks pursuing faster, more efficient and more user-friendly processes using electronic signatures and documents.

By default, the mobile channel undermines conventional controls. With a mobile-centric approach, this can be turned around.

The "virtual data room" has been a staple of commercial banks and capital markets firms for much of the past two decades. These locked-down, secured networks allowing third parties to share sensitive client information via electronic documents became the norm for handling syndicate loans, initial public offerings and mergers-and-acquisition discussions.

Signature Bank's CEO, Joseph J. DePaolo, answers the skeptics

TD Bank dispenses with the celebrities and builds a new ad campaign around the customer experience.

Consolidation has left one of the nation's most crowded banking markets without a dominant local player. But a handful of hometown banks, including Ed Wehmer's Wintrust Financial along with PrivateBancorp, MB Financial and First Midwest Bancorp, look to be in a good poisiton to pursue the mantle.

The banking industry's appetite for municipal debt has been on the rise, but it's mostly small institutions that are doing the splurging, leaving the typical small bank with a far bigger allocation to munis then the typical large bank.

The drain from construction loan portfolios has slowed, and other categories of commercial property loans have notched gains in recent periods.

James Abbott, recently named the best investor relations professional for mid-cap banks, understands what analysts need to know about Zions because he used to be one of them.

Northfield Bancorp (NFBK) in Woodbridge, N.J. has promoted a senior executive to become its president.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Last year’s merger of Southeast Corporate FCU into Corporate One FCU, creating one of four major surviving national corporate credit unions, was accomplished with up to $15 million of financial assistance from NCUA to help make up for potential shortfalls due to troubled Southeast investments.

Young hipsters aren't the only ones who want to conduct business with mobile phones. The underserved are also heavy smartphone adopters, and likely to use them for banking and payments.

U.S. banks have shed tens of thousands of jobs in recent years. Still, even those that are pruning staff in some areas are ramping up in specific business lines or markets to generate new revenues. Here's a look at who's hiring and where.

As banks press ahead in introducing mobile services, glitches abound. But many see phone-based banking as a game-changer as customers embrace the technology, warts and all.

A Senate panel is said to be looking into warnings by a former trader at JPMorgan Chase months before his bets ballooned into a $6 billion loss for the company.

Robert Scully, a former top executive at Morgan Stanley, said he will leave the Bank of America board when his term expires.

Add First Baldwin Bancshares in Foley, Ala., to the list of companies turning to bankruptcy as a way to stabilize banking units.

TCF Financial in Wayzata, Minn., continues to take heat over efforts to comply with U.S. laws that govern transactions with Iran.

Profits at the prepaid card issuer Green Dot (GDOT) fell sharply in the fourth quarter but still came in higher than analysts had expected.

Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) has agreed to buy a credit card portfolio from Quad City Bank & Trust.