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Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I., hired a longtime executive at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta to lead its Southeast operations.

Gene Bruyette, a co-founder of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, the investment bank that became one of the most prolific advisors on bank merger deals, has died. He was 90.

A former director at Pinnacle Financial Partners who pleaded guilty to insider trading agreed to pay a heftier fine after a judge rejected the initial penalty as being too low.

Banks aiming to market internally developed products to other banks are also taking steps to become better vendors. Leader Bank, for instance, took more than a year to get its technology and staffing up to snuff before pitching its rent-payment program.

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The focus of banks' sales practices should be less about unit-based incentives, and more about developing a full relationship with customers and doing what's in their best interest.

WASHINGTON – Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, has been offered the job of director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration, several news outlets reported Friday.

AltaPacific Bancorp in Santa Rosa, Calif., has promoted its chief operating officer an even bigger role.

Biometric authentication company Veridium has named a former fintech executive from HSBC as its new CEO.

Allegiance Bancshares in Houston has recruited a new chief financial officer.

Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, on Wednesday was named chairman of the Business Roundtable, further cementing himself as a key intermediary between the incoming Trump administration and the business community.

The American Bankers Association has filed a lawsuit against the National Credit Union Administration, arguing that the regulator's new field-of-membership rule go too far.

Citigroup in early December added its 1 millionth new customer to the Costco card portfolio it acquired earlier this year.

Pacific Financial in Aberdeen, Wash., is looking for a new chief credit officer.

U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis has raised its expectations for its net interest margin in the fourth quarter, citing the recent increase in benchmark rates.

Old National Bancorp in Evansville, Ind., has shuffled its corporate finance department, promoting four executives to new or expanded roles.

Texas Capital Bancshares in Dallas has snagged a BBVA Compass banker and promoted two of its own executives.

Santander Consumer USA Holdings in Dallas has named a former president of Ally Financial and a former Treasury Department official to its board.

Veridian CU makes changes to its commercial lending lineup and other credit union professionals in the news.

Wells Fargo's retail bank trends in November were probably similar to those in the previous month, CEO Tim Sloan said Tuesday at an investor conference in New York.