Consumer banking
Consumer banking
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Small banks have spent years shrinking their residential development portfolios, but a rebound in housing starts could bring more lenders back to that market.
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When industries and business environments evolve, the best and brightest people and organizations in that industry will as well.
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SunTrust Banks (STI) expects its heightened volume of mortgage refinancings to continue next year, even while other banks and industry analysts are projecting a slowdown.
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Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihan said the firm has plenty of capital and he's confident it will pass the next U.S. stress tests.
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The $630 million-asset company has agreed to buy Potomac Mortgage Group in northern Virginia for $19 million in cash and stock.
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While there are worries that an eventual rise in interest rates will hurt real estate prices, experts in multifamily housing also believe that the market's fundamentals are solid.
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Heritage Oaks Bancorp (HEOP) in Paso Robles, Calif., has appointed a longtime financial manager as its chief financial officer.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any nastier between banks and credit unions, the credit unions are opposing a TAG extension that many small banks have been pushing for.
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Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren successfully beat out GOP incumbent Sen. Scott Brown securing herself a spot on the Senate Banking Committee.
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Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren has secured a spot on the Senate Banking Committee and she'll be joined by Sen. Joe Manchin, according to a Democratic Senate aide.
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Better communication can improve the relationship between banks and their regulators.
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A sharp rise in noninterest income — including gains on asset sales — helped banks and thrifts record their best quarterly earnings total in six years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said Tuesday.
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The $6 billion-asset company based in Indiana, Pa., said Monday it has appointed Jon Gorney as a director.
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Bankers had long paid Equifax and the credit-services unit of Computer Sciences for the same credit reports. Now that they are poised to merge, banks could push for lower fees, experts say.
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An online-bank board's appointment of John Keach Jr., a community banker who had to sell his bank this year, provides a ray of hope for industry veterans.
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A lawsuit that charged three ratings agencies with wrongdoing in the sale of mortgage-backed securities cannot advance, a federal appeals court in Ohio has ruled.
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Stewart Larsen, Bank of the West's head of mortgage lending, still frets about pending regulation, but he prefers to stay focused on matters he can control.
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Here we find a bank president, who makes a loan commitment over a martini - if I may be facetious - without even looking if there is an olive in the glass.
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Bank of Hawaii (BOH) in Honolulu will exit the American Samoa market in the first quarter by closing its two branches in the U.S. territory.
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Citigroup has managed to train the chief executives of a number of leading banking and card network execs over the years, despite its well-documented troubles.
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