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Texas Capital to halt leveraged lending as losses mount

01/24/19

The Dallas company boosted its loan-loss provision in the fourth quarter to cover deteriorating leveraged loans, causing it to miss profit estimates.

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CFPB's No. 3 to depart, join New York AG

01/24/19

Chris D’Angelo, the CFPB's associate director of supervision, enforcement and fair lending, is leaving the bureau after eight years to become a chief deputy attorney general in New York state.

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C&I, mortgages drive East West's 4Q loan growth

01/24/19

The surge in new lending at the Pasadena, Calif., company offset rising deposit costs and sluggish fee-income growth.

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Fed should open the payments system to fintechs

01/24/19

There’s no reason for the central bank to prohibit nonbank financial firms from entering the payments system as long as appropriate rules are put in place to protect against risk.

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Fed examines Deutsche’s Danske role; Wells loses another executive

01/24/19

The bank says regulators want information about its possible role in the money laundering scandal; Kristi Mitchem moves to BMO Global Asset Management.

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Zelle's volume surges, but there's a catch

01/24/19

The bank-led P2P network Zelle saw its strongest quarterly growth during the fourth quarter of 2018, as payment volume rose nearly 60 percent to $119 billion for the year. But a significant amount of this volume comes from just one bank.

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Five House freshmen to watch on housing issues

01/23/19

Several new members of the House Financial Services Committee with backgrounds in housing could use their experience to address Chairman Maxine Waters' top agenda items.

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One study, two vastly different visions for CFPB payday rules

01/23/19

When a Columbia University professor surveyed 1,000 payday loan customers, little did he know that the resulting research report would become a lightning rod in the drafting of rules for small-dollar lenders.

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24 million mortgage documents exposed in data security lapse

01/23/19

A security lapse left millions of mortgage records exposed online without proper data protections, according to security researchers.

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Sterling to buy specialty lending businesses from Woodforest

01/23/19

The New York company will add $504 million of asset-based and equipment-finance loans as part of the acquisition.

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