Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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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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The Treasury Department has begun an auction for its Troubled Asset Relief Program stake in nine more banks.
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Huntington Bank (HBAN) is joining with Michigan State University to give fans of the school's football team a new way to show their pride.
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Visa is teaming up with phonemaker Samsung Electronics to provide a financial program to enable mobile handsets to be used like a credit or debt card.
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Rheo Brouillard, a longtime director at Bankers' Bank Northeast, was tapped to succeed Ralph Shulansky, who died of a heart attack last month.
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Credit Suisse may be facing a probe by the Department of Justice over the company's sale of securities backed by residential mortgages, Reuters reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Take the Federal Housing Administration out of HUD and put it under a commission. A self-funded, independent government corporation would be a major step toward comprehensive housing finance reform.
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Michael Crowley Jr., the chief executive at Bank Mutual in Brown Deer, Wis., is stepping down after 45 years with the company.
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CO-OP Financial Services hopes the model used in one of the oldest staples of credit union cooperation, the shared branch, can drive new digital commerce innovation such as person-to-person payments and mobile remote deposit capture.
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Most large banks are competing to build bigger and better branches, but HSBC is betting that smaller is smarter.
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Seacoast Commerce Bank in San Diego has named David Bartram its new chief operating officer.
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