Private banks

Rose Cohen will join Citi in August as managing director and ultrahigh-net-worth team lead in Washington, D.C.

Revenue from wealth and investment services dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter, swooning 10.7% to $7.9 million from $8.8 million a year ago.

The SEC charged the firm with violating federal securities laws by providing unregistered cross-border brokerage and investment advisory services to U.S. clients.

Halé Behzadi will oversee the bank's offices in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Orange County, Palo Alto, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle.

Merrill Lynch's expanding financial boot camp deepens relationships by helping wealthy clients ensure that the family fortune lasts beyond this generation and the next.

Citigroup assets at its Asian wealth management businesses climbed to a record $251 billion at the end of May as U.S. and European banks have been seeking to boost their wealth businesses in Asia to tap rising affluence in economies from China to Southeast Asia.

The decline was partly due to weather-related events that lowered customer activity across the board, the bank’s CFO said during an earnings call.

The new director fills the last of three critical positions in the build-out of the Waterbury, Conn.-based private bank.

E.J. Burke, one of the two new co-presidents of the Community Bank, will be responsible for Key Private Bank as well as Key’s commercial and business banking segments.

C1 Bank in St. Petersburg, Fla., is betting that its new, above-average "living wage" for all full-time employees will help it attract and retain top-notch workers.

Community banks are revamping branches and offering new services in an effort to become trusted advisors to small businesses. Such a transformation is often easier said than done.

Upstate New York banker John Buhrmaster discusses the regulatory challenges small banks face, his issues with big banks and why smaller banks need to take a serious look at charging more for the services they offer.

Community bank leaders entered 2014 with a rosy view of their companies' prospects, according to a new survey from Abound Resources.

Banks that want to expand via M&A will face a special challenge in 2014. The failed-bank market has quieted, but regulatory costs and other factors that are expected to drive open-bank M&A haven't coalesced quite yet, says bank M&A advisor Randy Dennis.

Investors paid the most in a year this month to hedge against swings in U.S. financial shares amid speculation that increased regulation and a reduction in Federal Reserve stimulus will hurt revenue.

Many RIA firms are tempted to use new trust companies to avoid losing clients to big banks. Some experts warn against it.

Umpqua Bank's plan to grow the private banking business to 10 times its size by 2018 may shift into high gear if its parent company's planned acquisition of Sterling Financial Corp. is approved.

Net inflows from wealthy clients in emerging markets slowed in the third quarter according to the world’s largest private bank for the rich.

Almost half (46%) of advisors believe their clients donate to charity to reduce their taxes, when in fact only 10% do.

Umpqua Bank’s plan to grow the private banking business may shift into high gear if its parent company’s planned acquisition of Sterling Financial Corp. is approved.