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Consumers’ perception of their own bank remains strong, while overall sentiment about the industry remains sour.

Rarely is bankruptcy court a welcome detour, but more struggling banks may take it to overcome debtholders blocking their recapitalization efforts.

Policymakers' focus on capital may be creating a false sense of security, and it may be overshadowing other, equally important issues that are central to preventing the next crisis.

Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA Inc. announced Wednesday it bought Prestige Professional Plans, a single office, employee benefits insurance brokerage firm located in Dayton, Ohio.

Three years after the last recession began, gathering retail deposits is a game where every bank’s a winner. Even the ones that don’t want to be.

Dave Colby, chief economist at the Credit Union National Association, said the economy is teetering, as consumers continue to deleverage. He projected 2% to 3% credit union loan growth in 2011.

It remains to be seen whether institutions that are in better financial shape than Bank of America and Ally Financial will accept olive branches from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

DWS Investments has had a turbulent history. But its executives say the business is on course to notch its first year of positive net flows in several years.

It's common enough at the beginning of a new year to reflect on where we have been and on where we are headed. A tougher question for the banking industry to answer at the start of 2011 may be: where are we now?

While 2010 was an all-out scramble by Democratic leaders to harness outrage over the financial crisis to push reg reform over the finish line, the legislative outlook for next year ...

Big banks increasingly want branch workers to act like salespeople—but they're not quite ready to pay them for the extra hustle it takes to close a deal.

Dan Coughlin, chairman and CEO of Howe Barnes, will join Raymond James holding two high-level positions.

Bank acquisition activity is widely expected to pick up in 2011, but some parts of the country might be more active than others.

UBS will pay $2.2 million to individual investors in the largest settlement to date related to Lehman Brothers-associated products it once sold.

The state’s attorney general and the bank resolve allegations about securities sold to the local government investment pool.

Banks are again are looking at retail stores for inspiration — this time for customer relationship cues — but are running into an old problem: the models don't always translate.

Deciding which financial firms beyond banks are systemically important is one of the biggest decisions still to be made by regulators under the Dodd-Frank Act.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced three shared-equity deals Tuesday for a total of $620 million in failed-bank assets.

Toronto-Dominion, which controls a 1,250-branch retail bank on the East Coast of the U.S., said the deal will create one of the five-largest bank-owned auto lenders in North America.

If you want to know why the ABA blames the ICBA for undercutting the industry's lobbying on regulatory reform legislation, you have to start in Nebraska.