Bankruptcy Blogs

Truist out to prove it can best the megabanks in tech

07/30/19

To combat the notion that regional banks’ tech offerings are inferior, the combined BB&T-SunTrust will have to go “toe-to-toe” with big banks, BB&T chief Kelly King said ahead of shareholder approval of the deal Tuesday.

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Crypto holds public promise and potential for danger: Senators

07/30/19

Two weeks after lawmakers grilled a Facebook exec over Libra, they acknowledged benefits from digital currency technology while warning of the risks.

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Make banks use T-bills as collateral for excess reserves

07/30/19

The approach could work as long as the Fed were to add certain thresholds.

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Capital One hacked; job cuts and a reorg on tap for Citi

07/30/19

In what's being called "one of the largest-ever data breaches of a large bank," Capital One said a Seattle hacker gained access to the personal information of more than 100 million customers; Citigroup plans to cut hundreds of jobs in its global markets division and combine its equity trading and prime brokerage units.

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BofA to end payments joint venture with First Data next June

07/30/19

Bank of America said it will end a payments joint venture with First Data next June when a contract between the two companies expires.

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'It should just work': Why banks need a single standard for data sharing

07/30/19

Don Cardinal of FDX and Olivier Helleboid of Intuit explain the FDX and OFX standards, how they're turning them into one standard and what that standard will be able to do for banks.

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When do credit problems move from one-off to trend?

07/29/19

Credit quality is being second-guessed after several banks reported higher 2Q charge-offs.

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A GSE plan before the election has risks — but so does doing nothing

07/29/19

Some believe the administration will delay action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to avoid any political fallout. Others say the window for reform is closing.

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Capital One systems breached by Seattle woman, U.S. says

07/29/19

Capital One Financial Corp. lost data from as many as tens of millions of credit card applications after a Seattle woman hacked into a cloud-computing company server, federal prosecutors in Seattle said.

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Mnuchin's former bank agrees to $100M redlining settlement

07/29/19

The Department of Housing and Urban Development approved a settlement in favor of the California Reinvestment Coalition against CIT Group's OneWest Bank, which was run by Steven Mnuchin prior to him becoming Treasury secretary.

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