Bank channel

Wells Fargo Advisors recruited a veteran advisor generating more than $1 million in annual revenue.

Blue Elephant Capital Management is planning a second fund to purchase loans originated on online marketplaces, and the differences from its first fund show how hot the sector has become.

At a roundtable with federal and state regulators in Los Angeles this week, bankers offered some fresh ideas about possible regulatory relief. Here is a sampling.

We caught up with our No. 1 advisor from 10 years ago, Denise White, and talked about the twists and turns her career has taken.

Since the crisis, banks have relied on lower loan-loss provisions to make a profit. But banks actually made money in the third quarter. Here's how.

Treasuries gained, sending 10-year yields a one-month low, as jobless claims rose, business- equipment orders fell and home sales were less than forecast, raising concern about the health of the economic recovery.

Growing income inequality is said to be a major reason most consumers plan to spend the same or less than last year on holiday shopping, and it could hurt bank and credit union revenues in the fourth quarter and present them other long-term challenges.

With new bank chartering at a standstill, the FDIC has issued new guidance on de novo capital requirements and other issues in part to "demystify the application process."

Advisors thinking of resigning need to avoid the pitfalls--here's a primer on how to consciously uncouple from your employer.

Senate Democrats hammered William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at a highly anticipated hearing on Friday, demonstrating the growing pressure the central bank is under to take harsher actions against banks and restrict examiners from defecting to institutions after leaving service.

Moving into management isn't a natural progression for some. It requires a different skill set and it's not always the most successful advisors who make the grade.

Regulators are threatening more action to force improvements in the behavior of bank employees, but executives are shooting back that the task is easier said than done and that change has to come from inside and not through supervisory orders.

Royal Bank of Canada is exiting wealth management in the Caribbean, extending a retreat in its international wealth business that began last year in Latin America.

Steven Sugarman, chief executive at Banc of California, recently completed a large branch acquisition after a public battle with an advocacy group. In a recent interview, he discussed that process as well as the bank's busy year — both the good and the bad.

The wirehouse said it scooped up two advisors from rivals Raymond James and J.P. Morgan.

Two advisors have left J.P. Morgan Private Bank to join Barclays' wealth management division in Palm Beach, Fla.

Ask three bankers about the value of in-store branches, and you might get four opinions. Moreover, you would swear none of them are even discussing the same business when the conversations are done.

The unit is aggressively pursuing modest mass-affluent investors with less than $500,000 in investible assets and its effort appears to be paying off.

Layout, compensation and training can make or break high-tech, high-concept branches, said bankers at BAI's Retail Delivery conference.

A group of ultrawealthy Citigroup clients clamoring for big returns on U.S. real estate have entered into funding commitments for a new commercial and multifamily development on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif. It is one of several co-investment projects the firm is offering through its private bank.