ABI Blog Exchange

2019-06-27
The $550 million purchase will include a branch in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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2019-06-27
Surprise!  Mostly bankruptcy helps people with not enou

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2019-06-27
In the eyes of regulators, Facebook and bitcoin have a lot in common. Both challenge citizens' relationship to privacy, and both use technology in ways that current laws were unprepared for.

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2019-06-26
Lending to companies with heavy debt loads is a growing business — one that many fear could lead to the next financial crisis.

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2019-06-26
Once a poster child for corporate wrongdoing, Citi has bolstered its reputation by taking bold stands on polarizing social issues, such as climate change and gun control, and declaring its commitment to move more women and minorities into manageri

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2019-06-26
By creating a close tie between digital debit cards and the major third-party mobile wallets, Bank of America is doing something few banks are — and expecting a payoff in broader use of digital financial services and “top of wallet” spending.

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2019-06-26
A group of Senate Democrats have called on HUD Secretary Ben Carson to reverse his agency’s opinion that borrowers in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are ineligible for FHA loans.

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2019-06-26
The decision follows similar moves by rivals JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

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2019-06-26
Challenger banks promote the concept of empathy in banking, which sometimes means forgoing revenue to build up customer goodwill.

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2019-06-26
The New Jersey regional will have higher capital levels after buying Oritani Financial. That was just one of the reasons why CEO Ira Robbins overcame his aversion to M&A.

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2019-06-26
After years of largely standing on the sidelines, lawmakers are taking a closer look at whether algorithms used by banks and fintechs to make lending decisions could make discrimination worse instead of better.

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2019-06-26
First American Bank agreed to sell its Iowa branches to GreenState just weeks after arranging the transfer of its Florida locations to another credit union.

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2019-06-26
The president said that European Central Bank President Mario Draghi would do a better job overseeing monetary policy in the U.S. than Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.

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2019-06-26
Credit unions and the rest of the financial services sector, in the spirit of recent criminal justice reform, should be more open to hiring workers with low-level criminal convictions.

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2019-06-26
Valley, which had focused on Florida in recent years, will double its market share in Bergen County with the $740 million acquisition.

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2019-06-26
Ken Lehman recently bought a block of shares in Village Bank & Trust Financial.

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2019-06-26
Some signed on because the deal didn't require using or promoting Libra; Chicago bank may get stuck with $190 million of losses from U.K. mutual fund.

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2019-06-25
Researchers found that stolen payment data has been used to finance terrorism, human trafficking and other organized crime.

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