Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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HOOVER, Ala. Alabama Telco CU sold its former headquarters building here to Northwestern Mutual Life for $2.1 million.
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FirstMerit (FMER) in Akron, Ohio, has named a president of its Michigan operations as it prepares to enter the state.
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Citigroup (NYSE:C), the third-largest U.S. bank, named Peter Orszag chairman of its expanded financial strategy and solutions group while selecting Ajay Khorana and Elinor Hoover to co-lead the unit.
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Too-big-too-fail worries in the U.S. make the full sale of Royal Bank of Scotland's Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I., highly unlikely, despite speculation about potential buyers.
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Cambridge Bancorp in Massachusetts has added Donald Briggs, a specialist in retail real estate, to its board. Briggs is senior vice president of development for the Federal Realty Investment Trust.
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Sen. Bob Corker released a statement downplaying an earlier report that suggested the lawmaker is "angling to broker a compromise" with President Obama over the confirmation of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Banks and thrifts are boosting their investments in bank-owned life insurance in an effort to keep pace with rising employee benefits costs and generate additional income.
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Policymakers can shape the Dodd-Frank risk retention requirements in a way that brings private investment back to the multifamily mortgage business. The window of opportunity is short.
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Radio silence from the CFPB on how it views the enforcement of fair lending laws is making community bankers nervous.
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Capital Bank in Vineland, N.J., reported record earnings and a larger dividend.
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The Bipartisan Policy Center has released a proposal that calls for a catastrophic government guarantee to backstop mortgages, similar to an idea first floated by the Treasury Department two years ago.
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JPMorganChase (JPM) has promoted a regional executive to lead its commercial banking unit that serves midsize businesses.
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Monday marked the 150th anniversary of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a landmark the agency noted by touting its accomplishments.
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Though regulators gave community banks an exemption for balloon mortgages, they carved out such a narrow definition that some banks would be forced to stop making them.
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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has persuaded a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that sought tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay for its assistant branch managers.
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Home equity lending remains miles away from growth, despite anecdotal evidence of a comeback and rising real estate prices that are fortifying loans already on the books.
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A century and a half ago, the National Bank Act was born with a mission to promote a strong, vibrant national banking system. What it created was a dual banking system that has been meeting the changing needs of bank customers ever since.
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A California man has been accused of running a scheme to prevent banks from foreclosing on properties.
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