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Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS Group banker who won a $104 million whistle-blower award after serving time in prison for tax conspiracy, won a U.S. judges permission to testify in France in a separate probe of the Swiss bank.
February 18 -
The board left his salary unchanged at $1.5 million and he received no cash bonus, a person with knowledge of the decisions said.
February 18 -
A recent research paper found that community banks' assets, along with market share in most types of commercial lending, have fallen since the Dodd-Frank Act was passed. The report is giving advocates of smaller institutions more data to rally around.
February 17 -
Branch closings draw big headlines, but several large banks are entering new markets or bulking up in underrepresented cities by adding branches and hiring lenders. Bank of America, for instance, is planning a retail push in Denver and Minneapolis.
February 17 -
John Houston, managing director of Raymond James Financial Institutions Division, shares his views.
February 12 -
Smaller banks must find ways to embrace new and disruptive ways of doing business to compete with bigger institutions and nonbanks, say industry experts.
February 11 -
The firm has made lending and deposits a greater part of its strategy as it seeks to generate more revenue from brokerage clients.
February 11 -
It's a mortgage on top of a mortgage, and at least one lender is making these loans again through brokers.
February 10 -
The bureau is raising concerns about the transparency and clarity of reverse mortgages based on more than a thousand complaints it received about the product.
February 10 -
High-net-worth unit of one of industry's biggest bank programs gets new leader in Terry Jenkins.
February 9 -
New hire will split his time between two community banks that Wintrust's holding company owns in the greater Chicago area.
February 6 -
The senior regional vice president will oversee new bank and credit union clients for Cetera in the eastern part of the U.S.
February 5 -
An SEC fine of a Pennsylvania bank over an accounting matter from more than five years ago raises questions about how long community banks should be on guard about challenges to their conduct during the financial crisis.
February 5 -
The three join a growing roster of J.P. Morgan alumni suspended and fined by FINRA since January.
February 4 -
Jan Hendrickson, former managing director and a founder of a venture capital firm, will grow the bank's ultrahigh-net-worth wealth management business in Seattle.
February 4 -
Our annual Top 50 was based on a composite score using various performance metrics. Here are the top bank advisors based solely on fee business.
February 3 -
FINRA finally threw the book at a former J.P. Morgan registered rep who it claims issued unauthorized ATM cards as part of scheme to loot money from customer bank accounts.
February 2 -
Brendan Freeman was named regional wealth executive for Mid-America and will oversee Regions Private Wealth Management teams serving clients in nine states.
February 2 -
Fake identity fraud is growing, due to the plentiful array of consumer account and card data available in the wake of massive data breaches. It's a crime banks find almost impossible to detect and deter
January 28 -
FINRA banned a rep for allegedly forging a customer's signature on bank withdrawal slips, a move that allowed the customer's sister to steal $3,900 from the customer's account. Two others were suspended for relatively minor infractions.
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