Strategic planning

The tight labor market and public pressure to raise minimum wages are expected to nudge noninterest expenses upward in a year when the watchword is cost control.

Emburse, a new consolidation of several corporate expense management platforms, now supports instant reconciliation of business expenses at the moment the transaction occurs.

The Toronto firm, Canada’s fifth-largest lender by assets, must keep “a careful eye on costs” and improve efficiency, its CEO said in a corporate memo.

The Wall Street bank aims to double consumer deposits and triple outstanding consumer loans in five years. A checking account is slated for 2021, and more cobranded credit cards could be coming.

The company best known for student lending expanded into personal lending less than two years ago. Now it says it is refocusing on core strategic priorities.

The Charlie Scharf era began with the company's lowest quarterly net income in more than nine years. Culprits included falling revenue, rising salaries and yet more financial fallout from the bank's sales scandal.

In the newly created role, Daniel Budington will be responsible for developing strategic partnerships and identifying growth opportunities.

Goldman Sachs plans to offer details into its workings to boost its stock value; while challenger banks are prospering, traditional banks still rule the roost.

Steuben Trust received two bites from potential MOE partners, but the New York bank’s lightly traded stock and many other challenges forced a sale to a much larger rival instead.

House and Senate lawmakers have denied a push by banking groups to grant banks the rent-free access to military installations that credit unions have.

The Bank is poised to pick two people to handle Simon Potter’s former job; Securities backed by subprime U.S. car loans are “going gangbusters.”

While layoffs at big banks get the headlines, small and midsize lenders are also trimming payrolls in response to lower rates and fears that a recession is getting closer.

Executives are deciding what roles could be relocated to lower-cost hubs such as Plano, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; and Wilmington, Del.

Perhaps the biggest test that Charles Scharf will face when he starts next week will be how to control expenses while still trying to make the necessary investments in risk management to satisfy regulators.

The institution also remained well capitalized and its membership rose in the first half of the year.

A new study suggests banks have the ability to operate leaner than ever before. That could fuel investor demands for more cost cutting and drive more banks to pursue M&A.

As head of strategic planning, Danella works with department heads to identify strategic priorities across all business lines and communicating those priorities, and management's vision for the company, to investors and employees.

Dimon doesn’t expect it to happen, but the bank is getting ready just in case; the state will require banks to disclose their relationship with gun sellers.

Pockets of job growth — in technology and compliance as well as from branch openings in new cities — are offsetting some of the dramatic cuts elsewhere at the world’s largest lenders.

Treliant and Federal Financial Analytics have established a one-stop shop to guide financial institutions through uncertain business and policy times.