Bankruptcy Blogs

B of A's Moynihan: Breaking up big banks would hurt U.S.

05/04/17

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said the Trump administration would harm U.S. businesses and undermine the financial system if it were to revive a Depression-era law separating consumer and investment banking.

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Flashback: The day Glass-Steagall died

05/04/17

In November 1999, we covered the repeal of a Depression-era banking law in the style of an obituary. It seemed unthinkable that today we'd be talking about a resurrection.

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Undocumented immigrant 'clients' filled quotas in Wells fraud, ex-bankers say

05/04/17

Despite a categorical denial this week by Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan, former employees like Yesenia Guitron say trawling for immigrants was routine.

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CIBC boosts PrivateBancorp offer, lifting cash portion by 12%

05/04/17

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce increased its offer for PrivateBancorp Inc. by $3 a share in cash to offset the decline in the bidder's stock price.

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Why the Choice Act is a threat to corporate stewardship

05/04/17

Some shareholders can help increase corporate accountability using a little-known but effective tool called a shareholder proposal. But now this tool is threatened by financial reform legislation.

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Banks put brakes on auto lending; The human cost of AI

05/04/17

Cutbacks coincide with drop in car sales; capital markets expected to lose 200,000 jobs net to artificial intelligence.

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First Horizon to buy Capital Bank in N.C. for $2.2 billion

05/04/17

The acquisition will make the Tennessee company one of the biggest banks in the Southeast with more than $40 billion in assets.

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Wells Fargo’s chief marketer talks navigating a crisis

05/03/17

Part of Jamie Moldafsky's job at Wells these days it taking an earful on social media, but the immediate feedback offers important lessons about the bank's products and efforts to rehab its image.

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Curry’s exit heralds end of Obama-era supervision

05/03/17

The Trump administration’s formal ouster of Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry has set in motion a sea change atop financial regulatory agencies that will likely unfold slowly over the next year.

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