ABI Blog Exchange

2017-04-08
The San Antonio company named Chad Borton, previously head consumer banking at Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, for the role. Fifth Third has named Philip McHugh as his successor.

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2017-04-08
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's top examiner at Wells Fargo was removed last month, according to Reuters.

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2017-04-07
A Senate Republican effort to use an obscure process to restructure the CFPB could derail any bipartisan agreement on targeted changes to the Dodd-Frank Act.

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2017-04-07
Starling Bank in the U.K. is building from scratch. Unlike other neobanks, Starling sees its future as a hub of financial products, not necessarily the generator of every product. CEO Anne Boden explains.

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2017-04-07
Most banks still struggle to make it simple for customers to open new accounts entirely on mobile devices.

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2017-04-07
A new company, bridge21, says it is using bitcoin to allow users to send money from the United States to Mexico at better rates than traditional payments companies.

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2017-04-07
Linda McMahon told lawmakers the 7(a) program shouldn't run out of funds in fiscal 2017. Still, she wants permission to boost the program's funding authority by 15% if an unexpected spike in demand takes place.

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2017-04-07
The company took aim at Institutional Advisory Services, which recommended on Friday that shareholders vote against 12 of the company’s 15 board members.

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2017-04-07
Federal Reserve Gov. Jerome Powell has been tapped to head the agency’s supervisory committee, the post formerly held by Gov. Daniel Tarullo.

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2017-04-07
Reader reactions to criticism of Jamie Dimon, the House GOP ganging up on Richard Cordray, a bank's decision to part with Excel to measure credit losses, and more.

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2017-04-07
Bank of Montreal's Bill Downe, the longest-serving chief executive officer among Canada's largest lenders, will retire Oct. 31 after spending a decade expanding the nation's oldest bank through acquisitions in the U.S. and overseas.

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2017-04-07
Business confidence remains high, but Fed data shows commercial borrowing actually decelerated during the first quarter. Fortunately for banks, rate hikes have fattened margins.

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2017-04-07
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a provision in an arbitration agreement is invalid if it tries to waive a consumer’s right to stop future violations of laws.

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2017-04-07
Negative interest rate policies have not been shown to speed up spending or borrowing. In some cases, countries with such policies have seen their savings rates continuing to climb.

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2017-04-07
White House economic chief makes nice with Elizabeth Warren over resurrecting bank separation law; Renaud Laplanche launches a new company to compete with his old one.

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2017-04-07
Empirical studies have shown that minorities pay more for goods and services, and that they pay more to finance their purchases of those goods and services -- for instance, through subprime home and auto loans.

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2017-04-07
Elevate Credit in Fort Worth, Texas, debuted Thursday at half the price the company had been targeting. Investors may have been spooked by the possibility of rising losses.

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2017-04-07
Observers are divided over whether National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn's support for a modernized Glass-Steagall Act is purely opportunistic or sincere.

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