Financial institutions

Year to date Dec. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

On Dec. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

On Dec. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

Draft legislation to make annual testimony mandatory for the chiefs of the largest banks was added to the agenda of a House Financial Services Committee hearing set for Thursday.

Over a dozen progressive lawmakers urged the central bank to reverse its course and protect bank regulations enacted after the financial crisis.

Some banks have backed away from the technology, but Northern Trust, State Street and JPMorgan Chase are among those actively working on blockchain projects.

The Southeastern regional bank said Thursday that it had hired Lee Byrd to a new role dedicated to protecting customers and the company itself from fraud.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council is shifting away from designating specific nonbanks and moving toward identifying activities that threaten the whole system. But some say that approach just weakens the council.

The coastal city quickly rebounded after being hit by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017.

Triad Business Bank adds to the list of de novo efforts taking place in the state.

The Pittsburgh bank says it is selling the assets to Federated Investors to focus its PNC Capital Advisors unit on providing outsourced services.

Fitch Ratings issued a negative warning for global banks after federal regulators proposed some relief from resolution plan requirements.

Tandem Bank has approval from the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance as its aims to become the state's first new bank since the financial crisis.

Concerns about job losses and political blowback still loom, but the two banks made it through a second day of public hearings hosted by the Fed relatively unscathed and with significant local support.

Synovus converted all 26 of its separately branded community banks to its own name over the past two years — a major undertaking that allowed Jennifer Upshaw, senior director of marketing, to shine.

Over the past two years, Uma Wilson's strategy took a program that had been losing customers on a year-over-year basis and transformed it into the fastest-growing issuer of Visa cards in the region.

As chief operational risk officer, Carrie Lichter played a key role in bringing to life Fifth Third's high-tech war room, also known as the cyber fusion center.

Big banks and other financial firms spend as much as $3,000 per employee to defend computer networks from cybercriminals, a survey found, as the industry remains the primary target of such attacks.

April Frazer describes herself, forthrightly, as a very driven person. Which may explain how she became global head of banks at Wells Fargo before her 37th birthday.

A rapidly changing workforce and the proliferation of public and shareholder activists have fundamentally reshaped the job of running a bank.