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Deutsche Bank AG, Europe's biggest investment bank by revenue, will review whether to punish senior employees including Alan Cloete for their roles in the interest-rate rigging scandal, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Rene Jones was also named one of two vice chairmen of M&T Bank.

The wealth manager is tapping the expansive commercial banking network of its new parent, M&T Bank, to connect with business owners and real estate developers.

A former top producer from Wells Fargo's private bank will manage client acquisition and relationship development activities across Webster’s four-state footprint.

Raoul Weil, once a powerful UBS AG executive, will return today to a U.S. courthouse where prosecutors said last month he ran a business that used Swiss bank secrecy to help Americans cheat on their taxes.

Susquehanna Bancshares (SUSQ) in Lititz, Pa., has hired Kevin Burns as chief risk officer and executive vice president.

Regulators are hoping to release an interim final rule next week designed to satisfy banker demands to change a provision of the Volcker Rule that threatens to force smaller institutions to take millions of dollars in write-offs.

Is it time to embrace temporary branches? Stop moving your best branch talent to other jobs outside the branch? Ditch promo pricing? Get some fresh perspective with American Banker's Big Ideas for 2014.

If you still haven't honed your professional approach, let that be your work resolution for the new year.

Many top bank executives still struggle to articulate the value proposition of their wealth programs and why it's better than that of their competitors. The new year brings into focus the importance of creating and sustaining a strong wealth management business.

A retired executive at Yadkin Financial resigned last week in a dispute over the Elkin, N.C., company's growth strategy.

A lot has changed since 1946 when the character from "It's a Wonderful Life" was running a small-town bank. But the perils Bailey faced are, in many ways, similar to those community banks are grappling with today.

Buoyed by its success on the West Coast, Operation Hope is partnering with the likes of SunTrust and Popular Community Bank to set up its financial literacy centers in such cities as Memphis, Atlanta, Washington and New York.

Susquehanna Bancshares is doing a sale-leaseback of 30 branches to improve its capital planning. But over the long term, and more importantly to the industry overall, it could also help the bank get out of branches that may one day become obsolete.

The question triggers a whole array of responses. But after a five-year onslaught of new rules and enforcement, some see a brighter regulatory future for banks.

Valley National Bank in Wayne, N.J., is joining the trend toward self-service banking with a plan to upgrade the technology at most of its 204 branches over the next five years.

Huntington Bancshares in Columbus, Ohio, plans to close nine branches after its acquisition of Camco Financial in Cambridge, Ohio.

A man dressed in Kris Kringle's trademark snowy beard and red stocking cap robbed a SunTrust branch in Port Orange, Fla., on Monday.

Banks that want to expand via M&A will face a special challenge in 2014. The failed-bank market has quieted, but regulatory costs and other factors that are expected to drive open-bank M&A haven't coalesced quite yet, says bank M&A advisor Randy Dennis.

JPMorgan Chase is strictly limiting the debit card use of shoppers who used Chase debit cards at Target during the data breach that happened Nov. 27 to Dec. 15.