Bank channel

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday said regulators would take additional steps to eliminate the problem of "too big to fail" if current efforts fall short.

The Pasadena-Calif.-based bank decided to move its program because of Cetera’s technology platform, product menu, reporting capabilities and the training it provides advisors.

U.S. Bancorp has agreed to purchase Deutsche Bank's municipal bond trustee business, which has about $57 billion of assets under administration and 1,100 trust and agency contracts.

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said banks are no longer "too big to fail," and admonished fellow bankers to accept the existence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The anger against the country's biggest banks is ready to boil over, Harris Simmons, the chairman and chief executive of Zions Bancorp., warned Wednesday.

Umpqua Private Bank plans to add 20 to 25 private bank advisors over the next five years, a move it anticipates will help grow the business to more than 10 times its current size.

The system isn’t falling apart, but clients in their 60s have more personal concerns at heart—and you need to be able to answer their questions.

Bank holding companies saw a dip in wealth management income in the first three quarters of 2012, a new study says.

Ty Schlobohm and Mark Ambrose joined as private client advisors, while Mark Broderick joined as a private client consultant.

Program managers and bank advisors may not agree on everything, but most likely they see eye-to-eye on one thing: the desire to increase an advisor’s production.

Why is branding so important and how can you build a stronger brand?

The self-directed channel hasn’t been as bad as expected for traditional advisors. And there may even be some opportunity left.

Few bank executives could state a clear and comprehensive wealth strategy. And most had trouble identifying something about their wealth management efforts that was unique.

Banks need to keep their customers in mind as just one constituency when designing their compensation plans for advisors

Paul Springmeyer joined the bank’s Private Client Reserve unit as a senior portfolio manager and John Ostrand joined as a trust officer.

What does it take to be a successful advisor? And how do you prove your worth to clients?

The two Monday morning sessions at the Bank Insurance & Securities Association’s annual conference were billed as “Market Perspectives” and they lived up to the name.

In the two months since its launch, the iPad app has been downloaded by a half million Wells Fargo customers, who have rated it just under four stars. What's unique about the app is that it lets customers manage consumer, small business and Wells Fargo Advisors brokerage accounts in one place.

If there was a theme to the opening sessions of the Bank Insurance & Securities Association’s annual conference in Florida on Sunday, it could be characterized as moderation.

BIC Editor Lee Conrad outlines the conference sessions that piqued his interest.