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Customers continue to be underwhelmed by banks’ customer service. Even worse, young customers see very little difference in services from one bank to another.

The bank's former head of branch banking and private banking now directs private wealth management, wealth planning, and trust and estate services as well as UnionBanc Investment Services and HighMark Capital Management.

We're a long way from building strong, interpersonal relationships with computers (the movie "Her" notwithstanding), which gives banks an advantage.

A third of 1,000 online investors surveyed by E-Trade Financial would like to monitor their investments on wearable apps.

Access National's four-year-old wealth management subsidiary has grown rapidly and is poised to enter the black. The allure of fee revenues has drawn many community banks into this field amid weak loan growth and tight interest margins.

The firm's wealth advisory services group hired a senior regional wealth advisor to work with high-net-worth clients in the New York area.

SunTrust Bank's ultrahigh-net-worth affiliate hires managing director to expand its business in the western United States.

Silicon Valley firms like Apple and Lending Club are happy to partner with banks — so long as they get to be the face of customer interactions. But banks may not easily give up that ground.

The 150 to 200 basis points that banks charge are likely to drop below 100.

Debra Ann Paton worked in the brokerage unit of First Tennessee Bank in Johnson City, Tenn. She was expelled for allegedly filing phony expense reports.

Institutions with $5 billion to $50 billion in assets have gained a bigger slice of the industry's assets since 2010 by focusing on specialized lending and redefining their markets.

A call to improve customers' digital-banking experience was the top theme during SourceMedia's Digital Banking Summit. Banks should imitate the Apples and Googles of the world, not each other, experts said.

Eric Goodbar joined BNY Mellon Wealth Management as a managing director and will be responsible for ultrahigh-net-worth families throughout the Western region.

Pershing will give advisors digital tools; Capitol One gets in the game with a hybrid robo plan.

Children still like paper statements, but Mom and Dad's reliance on plastic has meant less loose change ending up in the piggy bank. Mobile banking is hot, but peer-to-peer payments are off to a bit of a slow start.

The community bank says that LPL's compliance resources and technology were major factors in its decision.

Webster Private Bank hires regional executive to expand the private banking team in the Boston area.

TPMs have made technology a key priority as they look to help banks and credit unions—and their advisors—connect with clients who rarely visit local branches.

The TPM has hired two executives to oversee the recruitment of new banks and credit unions to its platform.