ABI Blog Exchange

2018-05-04
The itemized deduction for investment fees may have been eliminated, but clients still need guidance on paying IRA expenses. Here's what to tell them.

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2018-05-04
Financial institutions can begin to reduce the number of rogue employees and put a stop to bad behavior.

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2018-05-04
According to a recent Time Money article, a new report shows that younger adults burd

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2018-05-04
Costs rose at the global bank, profit in North America fell 16% and questions are mounting for new CEO John Flint ahead of the release of his strategic plan.

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2018-05-04
The bank’s head of global capital markets is joining a private equity firm; Jefferies mortgage bond trader is freed from prison.

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2018-05-04
Social Security Disability (SSD) provides two different types of programs for applicants.  If you have sufficient work credits after years of working and paying your FICA taxes, you should be able to apply through Social Security Disability Insura

Read More from: Young, Marr & Associates

2018-05-03
Readers applaud acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney’s cost-cutting ideas, slam recent calls for postal banking, opine on banks limiting their business with firearms dealers and more.

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2018-05-03
Attorneys for then President Robert Harra said he is innocent and will file an appeal. The case centers on a scheme said to have been carried out during the crisis years, before the bank was sold to M&T.

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2018-05-03
The northern Virginia company will also gain more branches around Washington as part of the $33 million deal.

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2018-05-03
A bank that can deliver a loan decision a little faster, or ask a client to input information just once, could get a leg up on the competition. But some executives are skeptical of software sales pitches and fear overpaying.

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2018-05-03
Bankers have long complained that anti-money-laundering regulations impose an extra burden without really stopping major crime. D.C. is finally listening.

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2018-05-03
Leader Bank says it can land property managers as commercial clients by helping them handle tenant deposits — and possibly create opportunities to boost CRE lending.

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2018-05-03
A New Jersey community bank has launched a campaign that takes digs at the megabank while highlighting its own values. Should others follow its lead?

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2018-05-03
The New Jersey mortgage lender and servicer won a huge victory in January when an appeals court threw out its fine levied by the consumer agency, but the court ruled against the claim that the agency's structure is unconstitutional.

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2018-05-03
Fannie Mae's first-quarter profits were enough for it to rebuild its minimum capital buffer and pay the Treasury Department dividend after being forced to take a draw during the previous fiscal period.

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2018-05-03
The acquisition is part of IBM’s recent focus on financial risk management services.

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2018-05-03
Though the prospects for these small banks look good in 2018, they also face serious challenges, particularly in the competition for low-cost deposits against the more digitally savvy megabanks.

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2018-05-03
Fifth Third is helping babies born in Chicago today (Get it? 5-3) save for college. It's the kind of nontraditional marketing that branding experts say more banks should experiment with.

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