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Coronavirus scams to watch out for

03/11/20

Financial institutions need to alert customers about emails or websites that pretend to offer important COVID-19 information but instead could end up stealing their account numbers or logins.

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Capital One asks employees to work from home to fight virus

03/11/20

Capital One Financial Corp. requested that its employees work from home if they can, joining other companies in trying to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

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Virus could deal blow to leveraged loans. What's that mean for banks?

03/11/20

Banks may be protected from a direct hit, but they have invested in vehicles that include such loans, potentially exposing them to defaults.

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Waters is right to make Wells Fargo a poster child for bad practices

03/11/20

The chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee should call on regulators to take more aggressive steps with bad banking practices, starting with Wells.

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HomeTrust reverses course on plan to sell $90M in mortgages

03/11/20

The North Carolina company will hold onto the loans following the Fed's decision to slash interest rates.

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Trump to meet with Wall Street CEOs; Scharf pledges urgent reform

03/11/20

Leaders to parlay with president as banks worldwide offer to aid customers; Wells CEO says the bank will be run “fundamentally differently” than in the past.

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Why energy lenders say they’re ready for this oil slump

03/10/20

Banks with the most exposure to oil and gas companies say they’ve added capital and changed their borrower mixes since the 2015 market fall. But skeptics question whether they can stave off losses if low prices endure.

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OCC guidance on data sharing could stifle innovation, fintechs say

03/10/20

The agency's recent update to its guidelines for banks on working with data aggregators and other third parties was not extreme, but some critics say its heavy emphasis on security could be a setback for open banking.

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CFPB chief takes heat from Senate Dems for regulators' response to virus

03/10/20

Kathy Kraninger was grilled about whether her agency and others were doing enough to cushion consumers from the economic blow of the coronavirus crisis.

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Waters asks DOJ to consider criminal charge against former Wells Fargo CEO

03/10/20

The chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Maxine Waters, contends that Tim Sloan knowingly made misleading and inaccurate comments during a hearing before her panel last year.

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