Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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In its latest billboard ad, the Colorado bank is comparing itself to an institution that makes nearly anyone look good.
February 7 -
State legislators want to give Bank of North Dakota authority to originate and service mortgages for rural community banks.
February 7 -
Darrell Fletcher is leader of the Columbus, Ohio, company's new commodities hedging service and its third specialty hire from another bank in recent months.
February 7 -
The Treasury Department has decided to cancel the auction of Coastal Banking Company's Troubled Asset Relief Program shares after the bank received approval to pay dividends.
February 7 -
Industry veteran Al Celini expects plenty of challenges, but a shorter commute and fewer crises, as the new chief risk officer at Sun National Bank.
February 7 -
Renasant in Tupelo will buy First M&F in Kosciusko in a merger of Mississippi banks.
February 7 -
Visa posted a fiscal first-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as consumer card spending accelerated.
February 7 -
JPMorgan Chasereclaimed the No. 1 title by market value, nudging Wells Fargo, as the impact of last year's wrong-way bet on derivatives fades and investors wager on an investment-banking rebound.
February 7 -
Visa's (NYSE: V) quarterly earnings increased by 26% from a year earlier, and its financial outlook for 2013 has also brightened, the company said Wednesday.
February 6 -
PNC Financial Services Group (PNC) has agreed to review mortgage loan applications in eight Northeastern states as part of a settlement over allegations that the company discriminated against a prospective borrower who was on maternity leave.
February 6 -
Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., will look to give its shareholders better liquidity this year, but it is not reconsidering an initial public offering.
February 6 -
The Cincinnati company is teaming up with an Oregon placement agency to help its unemployed mortgage customers find jobs and, it hopes, get caught up on their monthly payments.
February 6 -
Customers Bank is buying a commercial loan portfolio based in New England from Flagstar. The deal would reunite Jay Sidhu with some valuable former employees.
February 6 -
The recently renamed ConnectOne Bancorp in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., has filed to raise up to $46 million through an initial public offering.
February 6 -
Virtually all discussions of banking crises these days assume that depositors should always be protected, often at taxpayer expense. Let's consider whether at least some depositors should be bailed in.
February 6 -
A new report finds that consumers have a deeply ingrained expectation that checking accounts should be free. It argues that banks need to become savvier and more scientific in order to overcome that barrier.
February 6 -
The House Financial Services Committee held its first full hearing of the year on Wednesday, with lawmakers divided on the future of the Federal Housing Administration.
February 6 -
BofI Holding (BOFI) in San Diego earned a record quarterly profit on surging interest income and a higher interest margin.
February 6 -
First Niagara (FNFG) in Buffalo has created a banking region that includes branches it bought last year from HSBC.
February 6 -
Promontory responds to Joe Slavens.
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