Bankruptcy Blogs

Citigroup's credit-card chief to exit in consumer bank shake-up

08/13/18

Citigroup Inc. is restructuring its consumer-banking operation in a shake-up that includes the departure of its global credit-card chief.

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Credit Unions with the Most Deposits

08/13/18

On Mar. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

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Credit Unions with the Largest Portfolios of Loans and Leases

08/13/18

On Mar. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

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Credit Unions with the Most Assets

08/13/18

On Mar. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

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Venezuelan bank spins off Mercantil in Florida

08/13/18

The transaction was set up to give Mercantil more autonomy to expand in South Florida, Houston and New York.

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Motivate employees by challenging them to solve unbanked problem

08/13/18

Helping the underserved, especially abroad, can help banks retain top workers and boost profits.

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Wells Fargo is eyeing a piece of the $1.4 trillion student-debt pie

08/13/18

Wells Fargo & Co. is considering whether to jump-start its shrinking student-lending business by catering to borrowers holding U.S. government loans.

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CEO Calk conspired with Manafort to defraud his own bank: Prosecutors

08/13/18

Steve Calk, the head of The Federal Savings Bank, was a "co-conspirator" in an effort to defraud the Chicago bank, a prosecutor said at the trial of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. Could Calk be charged with a crime?

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Nonbank threat rises; Betting on M&A

08/13/18

Private equity firms are making loans to midsize businesses and online banks are winning deposits by paying 2% interest; Goldman hires a veteran M&A banker.

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Five C&I credit analysis tips from a Main Street banker

08/12/18

Good credit analysts are in short supply, says David Nicholson, a senior v.p. of commercial lending at a community bank. But fair warning for job seekers: Only dogged questioners who can think critically need apply because vetting business borrowers is as much art as science.

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