2017-05-17
Banks and nonbanks are typically foes, but banks made 34 nonbank M&A deals through mid-May, emerging as buyers in two-thirds of them.
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2017-05-17
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., introduced legislation Wednesday that would raise the stress testing threshold for small and community banks to $50 billion of assets.
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2017-05-17
The old record was set just before the Great Recession, and what may be most remarkable is that it took nearly nine years to reach a new milestone.
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2017-05-17
Fintech still has a ways to go to change the financial world, but it already offers solutions to income insecurity that can be truly transformational right now.
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2017-05-17
Cashing in digital currency for government-backed paper may not be so easy; JPM CEO is taken to task by shareholders for his close ties to President Trump.
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2017-05-17
Upcoming Committee Formation Meeting: Friday, May 26, 2017, 10:00am
Case Name: 17-11101 (KJC)
Location: The Doubletree Hotel 700 King Street Wilmington, DE 19801
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2017-05-17
Upcoming Committee Formation Meeting: Friday, May 26, 2017, 10:00am
Case Name: 17-11101 (KJC)
Location: The Doubletree Hotel 700 King Street Wilmington, DE 19801
Read More from: Cole Schotz P.C. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Law Blog
2017-05-17
By Ben Leubsdorf
The total debt held by American households reached a record high in early 2017, exceeding its 2008 peak after years of retrenchment in the face of financial crisis, recession and modest economic growth.
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2017-05-17
GulfMark Offshore, Inc., a provider of marine transportation services, primarily to the offshore energy industry, has f
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2017-05-17
GulfMark Offshore, Inc., a provider of marine transportation services, primarily to the offshore energy industry, has f
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2017-05-17
Numerated Growth Technologies has a platform that lets banks make lending decisions in as little as five minutes. The spinoff will be run by Dan O'Malley, Eastern's former chief digital officer.
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2017-05-17
As financial institutions look closer at the increasingly detailed consumer credit data available, they are learning consumers are more apt to pay off personal loans before mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.
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2017-05-17
Authorities are said to be investigating whether market makers — including three U.S. banks — suppressed prices to get higher yields on the bonds.
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2017-05-16
In an extensive interview, Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker talks about the challenges facing community banks, the biggest threat to the financial system and the possibility of interest rate hikes later this year.
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2017-05-16
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected to face tough questions on the OCC, Glass-Steagall and housing finance reform when he testifies on Thursday.
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2017-05-16
Steve Allocca is expected to play a key role in the online lender’s efforts to restart loan growth.
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2017-05-16
Bank of America is giving its 'erica' chatbot more time to learn the nuances of language and banking basics. A profanity filter is one recent addition.
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2017-05-16
JPMorgan Chase's chief caught a lot of Trump blowback at its annual meeting but refused an activist investor's challenge to step down from the president’s council on jobs.
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2017-05-16
A House Republican bill would allow lax lending standards to creep back into the financial system by gutting the CFPB, according to a letter from 158 law professors and scholars.
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