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The former president and chief executive of Gateway Bank in Oakland, Calif., has been accused of orchestrating a fraud scheme to disguise the bank's crumbling financial condition.

Only 40 banks have their own brokerage units, a mere 2% of the 1,809 banks that offer investment services.

The future of the branch is anyone's guess, but one thing is for sure: RIP teller lines. The new teller-line free branch concepts require staff members to better deliver a brand experience that includes demoing new mobile app features to signing a customer up on a new product.

Jim McNeil moves to Information Inc., another group within SmithBucklin, as his career comes full circle.

David Jones, the son of a minister, finds parallels between his chosen career at Lake City Bank and his father's work. They both help people, but he uses a desk instead of a pulpit.

Bank Investment Consultant decamped to Florida last month for the Bank Insurance & Securities Association's annual conference.

Regulators have a difficult and thankless job. In the advisory industry, with thousands of people, regulators are tasked with creating a universal minimum threshold of service and competence.

FINRA continues to tighten its rules to make sure investors get suitable advice. Meanwhile, advisors are trying to keep their heads above water.

A former executive of Weymouth Bank’s brokerage division and a former representative of M&T Bank Securities were barred from the industry for serious misconduct.

Poll results on if bank branch networks will decrease in the next decade.

M&A has been marked by the pursuit of earning assets in recent years, but banks that have cracked the organic loan growth code are looking to buy deposit-heavy banks before interest rates rise.

The U.S. Postal Service's inspector general defends a proposal - that the Postal Service should get into banking - that has come under fire from many in the financial industry.

The constant monitoring is helping the bank keep tabs on customers' likes and dislikes — and stay on top of complaints.

Each branch is unique with different personalities so you need to "crack the code" for each location-the key is to make their lives easier.

More banks are deciding to invest millions in mobile banking, video tellers and core-processing upgrades after avoiding capital spending for a long time. They says it's a good move for the long term, but some will take heat from investors and other critics in the short run.

The Federal Reserve Board denied the capital plans of Citigroup, HSBC, RBS Citizens, Santander and Zions in its second round of stress tests this year.

Nearly 150 million U.S. adults are expected to be banking on their mobile devices by 2018, and lenders can roll out the red carpet with user-friendly apps and modernized branches.

Over the next 12 - 18 months, the bank will introduce the U.S. version of the ultra-high-net wealth management program that its parent, BNP Paribas, rolled out in Europe and Asia.

Big Blue is trying to combine the products of several security-tech companies it has bought in recent years into a fraud detection system that compliance-minded banks want to buy. The challenges facing the vendor and its clients overlap considerably.

Bankers should view complaints on sites like Facebook and Twitter as an opportunity to publicly score points with customers.