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The agency said the market for larger rental investors may not need additional liquidity from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

A number of banks have stepped up efforts to lend to residential developers, though they are mindful of missteps made before the financial crisis.

New investor appetite for mortgages over $1 million is motivating more nonbank lenders to offer super jumbo loans, often with weaker credit terms than traditional banks.

Top U.S. housing regulator Mel Watt is privately reassuring people close to him that he will keep his post as authorities investigate an employee's claims of sexual harassment. Now, his accuser is heightening the pressure — speaking out publicly for the first time.

The money trail is a prominent part of investigations dominating headlines in the Trump era, casting attention on banks that have facilitated transactions for various people in the president's orbit.

The first meeting is structured like a job interview. After that, organizers should expect plenty of questions about money, management and markets.

Jacobs Asset Management, which expressed frustration over a slow turnaround at MidSouth, said it could launch a proxy battle at next year's annual meeting.

Lawmakers fear that regional banks could still get stung as the central bank implements a new law meant to ease their burden.

CUNA Mutual Group Economist Steve Rick is predicting a "mild, moderate recession" in the next few years. Here's how credit unions could be impacted in the run-up to that.

Since John Turner took over as CEO in July, Regions has announced several executive appointments, including promoting Kate Danella to oversee strategic planning.

It's a fickle industry, given the uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act and government reimbursements, but opportunities in lending to medical practices and device manufacturers make it hard to resist, bankers say.

The regulator of the government-sponsored enterprises has substantial authority to intervene as a legislative stalemate continues.

Organizers of Piermont Bank said in their application with the FDIC that they want to raise $100 million and eventually operate in several urban coastal communities.

Health care's a vertical that keeps coming up over and over as a laggard that sticks to paper, manual forms and other legacy payment methods, mostly because of the number of documents that would need to be digitized for even one part of the process to enter the modern age.

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Good old-fashioned commercial credit analysts are a dying breed, David Nicholson says. Community banks need them to stay competitive in C&I, but training courses have been cut back. So he’s on a mission to teach as many students as he can.

The bank's $7 million over four years toward the initiative is its largest overseas philanthropic commitment.

The Chicago-based Hutchinson, Shockey, Erley & Co. focuses exclusively on municipal securities.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued a proposal that would allow pass-through businesses like Subchapter S banks to deduct 20% of their business income as part of the new tax law President Trump signed last year.

The proposed Piermont Bank would be based in Midtown Manhattan. It is the second de novo being planned in New York.