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Lifetime achievement: Barbara Desoer's unconventional path to big-bank CEO

09/30/19

In a long and storied career, Barbara Desoer has helped shape two of the largest banks in the country, Bank of America and Citibank. The most striking detail? Her biggest role came after she 'retired.'

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Does Amazon-Google-Microsoft hold on the cloud pose a risk to banking?

09/30/19

With financial institutions relying more and more on cloud computing services, Washington is increasingly focused on the concentration of industry data in the big three technology giants.

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Columbia Banking System will promote Clint Stein to CEO

09/30/19

The transition to Stein from Hadley Robbins is the result of a multiyear succession process, the Tacoma, Wash., company said. Robbins had succeeded the late Melanie Dressel.

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House GOP calls on CFPB to continue remittance rule exemptions

09/30/19

House Republicans are pushing the CFPB to continue to allow banks and credit unions to estimate exchange rates and fees for money transfers.

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Data aggregators push back against notion they have a fraud problem

09/30/19

Fincen and others say third parties are proving to be treasure chests for crooks who create synthetic identities, but aggregators argue they help detect risk banks can’t see.

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Regulators grant preliminary OK to Houston de novo

09/30/19

Gulf Capital Bank has received conditional approval from state and federal officials and could be up and running late this year or early next year, its organizers say.

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High anxiety over narrowing margins

09/30/19

Bankers are expected to field numerous questions on third-quarter earnings calls about the threat of shrinking loan yields, stubbornly high deposit prices and what they're going to do about them.

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HSBC shortlist for CEO said to include Citi's Bird

09/30/19

HSBC's shortlist for its next chief executive officer includes Stephen Bird, Citigroup's head of global consumer banking, and RSA Insurance Group CEO Stephen Hester, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.

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Banks and Thrifts with the Highest Adjusted Nonperforming Loan Ratios

09/30/19

On Jun. 30, 2019. Dollars in thousands.

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Banks and Thrifts with the Highest Noninterest Income Ratios

09/30/19

On Jun. 30, 2019. Dollars in thousands.

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