Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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Green Dot (GDOT) reported a 4% jump in second-quarter profits even as its flagship prepaid card franchise continued to face pressure from new competitors.
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BB&T is raising its profile in the Atlanta area by attaching its brand to automated teller machines in Rite Aid stores across the metropolitan area.
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A relief package proposed by three senators last week has reinforced hope that Capitol Hill will ease community banks' regulatory burden by yearend.
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The City of Richmond has sent offer letters to roughly 32 mortgage servicers and trustees requesting that it be allowed to buy underwater home loans at reduced prices. If the servicers balk, city officials say they will seek to seize the properties through eminent domain.
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CIT Group in New York has named Randy Chesler as the president of its CIT Bank, based in Salt Lake City.
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While many people think of Bitcoin as a currency, Jaron Lukasiewicz, CEO and co-founder of Coinsetter, says Bitcoin should be thought of more as a payments infrastructure, allowing quick, inexpensive funds transfer. But for Bitcoin to thrive, banks must agree with this perspective.
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EverBank Financial (EVER) in Jacksonville, Fla., reported higher second-quarter earnings and said it would shut its wholesale-mortgage business.
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A federal judge has found in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in its case against an online operation that illegally debited consumers bank accounts when they visited the defendants Web sites seeking payday loans.
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A move by Pennsylvania lawmakers to abolish the state's savings-and-loan association charter comes as the number of thrifts nationwide continues to decline and the "S&L" name loses its former appeal.
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Mortgage loans on commercial properties rose sharply in the second quarter due largely to investors' heightened interest in apartment buildings.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago entered a written agreement with the $87 million-asset lender on July 23, Fed officials said Tuesday.
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Liberty Bell Bank in Marlton, N.J., said it has been victimized by a check-kiting incident, which widened its loss in the second quarter.
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Lending margins on commercial and industrial loans are thin and getting thinner. To keep them profitable, community bankers must make sure to maximize other opportunities with customers and minimize costs.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A new headquarters for Piedmont Advantage CU, the credit union for US Airways employees, will feature an atrium that looks like an air traffic-control tower and drive-thru teller lines shaped like airplane wings in celebration of the credit unions heritage.
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Western Union, the world's biggest money-transfer business, gained the most in three years after reporting second-quarter profit that exceeded analysts' estimates.
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The website for Panhandle Educators FCU was breached and defaced by a hacker Sunday morning.
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Price competition remains elusive in the market for loans to consumers with poor credit histories. Here's why.
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Coastal Bank in Savannah, Ga., has been freed from a regulatory order.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay $410 million to settle U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission allegations that the bank manipulated power markets in California and the Midwest from 2010 to 2012.
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Solera National Bancorp in Lakewood, Colo., is looking for a new president and chief executive.
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