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Ally Bank goes for viral marketing with 'Banksgiving' campaign

11/20/18

The new ad illustrates how banks are going beyond traditional promotions to try and find something that customers will share on their own.

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Time to clean house at Wells Fargo

11/20/18

The megabank’s continued compliance problems suggest that all of its board members, along with 100 of its most senior managers, should be replaced to make way for real change.

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Cost of doing business with sanctioned nations; Quarles may go global

11/20/18

Société Générale pays more than $1 billion for working with Cuba and others; Fed vice chair in line for global regulator chief role.

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Fed's Quarles in line to lead global regulator

11/19/18

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Banking Supervision Randal Quarles is expected to succeed Bank of England Governor Mark Carney as chairman of the Financial Stability Board, a key global financial regulator, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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Regulatory rollbacks could threaten banks' debt ratings: Fitch

11/19/18

The ratings agency said that it views rollbacks of stress-test comparisons and liquidity coverage ratio requirements as "negative" for banks with between $100 billion and $250 billion of assets.

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Is the public banking movement losing steam?

11/19/18

Efforts to create city- or state-owned banks in Los Angeles, Seattle and New Jersey have suffered setbacks of late, but public banking advocates are taking the long view.

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Bankers mobilize against SBA proposal on poultry lending

11/19/18

Lenders fear the agency's rule could make most poultry producers ineligible for 7(a) loans.

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Advia Credit Union to buy small Illinois bank

11/19/18

The move allows the Michigan credit union to expand its operations in Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

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Societe Generale fined $1.34B for violating U.S. sanctions

11/19/18

The French bank was hit with a billion-dollar fine after it was found to have unsafe practices that violated sanctions against Cuba and other sanctioned countries.

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Could smart contracts sideline banks?

11/19/18

Andrew Keys, co-founder of the venture capital firm ConsenSys Capital, has a vision of the future bankers might find chilling, in which banks and other middlemen are cut out of financial services.

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