Bankruptcy Blogs

CFPB orders Discover to pay $35 million for student lending mishaps

12/22/20

The consumer bureau said the bank’s migration to a new servicing platform led to unauthorized payment withdrawals, misrepresentations about what borrowers owed and violations of a prior 2015 enforcement action.

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BofA chairman of global corporate, investment banking to depart

12/22/20

Bank of America’s chairman of global corporate and investment banking, Anne Clarke Wolff, is leaving the firm.

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1st Advantage FCU in Virginia set for merger growth

12/22/20

Riverside Health System Employees Credit Union has announced plans to merge into the Yorktown-based credit union, which is roughly 100 times its size.

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PPP success fuels Umpqua’s commercial lending ambitions

12/22/20

The Oregon bank has launched a new division targeting businesses with up to $15 million in annual sales and tapped the banker who led its Paycheck Protection Program lending, Ashley Hayslip, to run it.

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Deutsche Bank says Trump’s personal banker has resigned

12/22/20

Rosemary Vrablic, who worked in the private banking division, helped manage Trump’s relationship with the bank as it lent hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to Trump’s company over a number of years.

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Credit Suisse flagged for anti-money-laundering shortcomings

12/22/20

The Federal Reserve and the New York State Department of Financial Services have ordered the Swiss bank’s U.S. arm to improve oversight and better monitor the activities of its customers.

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Bankers hope shell-company reforms are prelude to broader AML overhaul

12/22/20

Congress’s passage of a measure requiring startup companies — instead of their banks — to identify true owners was arguably the industry’s biggest legislative achievement in 2020. Now the industry is urging lawmakers to revisit proposals that would ease other anti-money-laundering reporting requirements.

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Not paying attention to Gen Z? Your credit union is already behind.

12/22/20

This oldest consumers in this next group are approaching their mid-20s, so financial institutions must think about tweak their marketing if they hope to reach them in an meaningful way.

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Farmers & Merchants expanding in northeast Indiana with Ossian deal

12/22/20

The company will pay $20 million in cash for a bank with two branches and $58 million of loans.

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Ripple says it faces SEC lawsuit as cryptocurrency XRP drops

12/22/20

The company did not disclose the nature of the suit, but CEO Brad Garlinghouse has long disputed the Securities and Exchange Commission's claim that XRP is a security, not a currency.

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