2017-12-02
Guaranty Federal Bancshares in Springfield, Mo., has agreed to buy Hometown Bancshares in Carthage.
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2017-12-02
The nomination of Jelena McWilliams to chair the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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2017-12-02
The bill would use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the payday rule, a procedure that allows Congress to overturn agency regulations with a majority vote.
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2017-12-02
The $528 million acquisition ends months of speculation that the foreign-owned banks were pursuing a deal.
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2017-12-02
Five years have passed since M&T agreed to buy Hudson City, only to be tripped up by anti-money-laundering issues. With a clean bill of health from regulators and Hudson integrated, management is again talking about its interest in deals.
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2017-12-02
The ill will between Democrats and Republicans in the controversy over appointing an acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief adds a new wrinkle to bipartisan efforts to pass regulatory relief.
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2017-12-02
Readers react to the CFPB director shake-up, applaud honorees of American Banker’s annual banker awards and weigh in on the heated financial data debate.
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2017-12-02
Umpqua has taken a cue from other regionals that have found success in investment banking.
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2017-12-02
Richard Cordray won’t be around anymore to keep an eye on the fintech sector. The question now is: Who will?
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2017-12-01
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), individuals and companies
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2017-12-01
It’s no secret that Delaware, New York (Southern District), and Texas (at least since the oil and gas crisis) have become known as the “hotspots” for filing large chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
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2017-12-01
It’s no secret that Delaware, New York (Southern District), and Texas (at least since the oil and gas crisis) have become known as the “hotspots” for filing large chapter 11 bankruptcy cases.
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2017-12-01
Jelena McWilliams, Fifth Third Bancorp’s chief legal officer, is the choice for FDIC chair; digital currencies pose too many risks.
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2017-12-01
Beth Mooney disarms “a ticking time bomb.” The former head of the Small Business Administration wants to buy Harvey Weinstein’s company.
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2017-12-01
A lot of lenders say they're dedicated to customer service, but here are six instances when Amarillo National Bank — whose CEO is one of our Banker of the Year award winners for 2017 — went above and beyond the normal call of duty.
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2017-12-01
For her entrepreneurial spirit and for bringing hometown banking back to Baltimore, Mary Ann Scully has been named a 2017 Banker of the Year award winner.
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2017-11-30
Jelena McWilliams, the chief legal officer for Fifth Third Bancorp. will be nominated as the next chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the White House said late Thursday.
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2017-11-30
Dizzying trading in bitcoin fed the bubble argument, but now that Nasdaq is the third Wall Street player to say it is designing a financial instrument around it, banks may be forced to reassess cryptocurrencies.
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2017-11-30
The former heads of the House and Senate banking committees argued Thursday that the Dodd-Frank Act clearly intended to allow the CFPB's deputy director to serve as acting director after the full-time head of the agency departed.
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2017-11-30
Introducing limits on federally guaranteed loans to graduate students, instead of letting them borrow whatever schools charge, would create a multibillion-dollar opportunity for private lenders.
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