Citigroup

Credit card issuers face peril from rise in store closures: Report

06/28/17

Synchrony Financial and Alliance Data Systems are particularly vulnerable to recent shifts in Americans’ shopping habits, according to new research from Moody’s Investors Service.

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Regionals aim to achieve true scale in credit cards

06/27/17

Even with card defaults ticking up slightly, regional banks remain committed to pursuing more credit card business as they look to both diversify their balance sheets and deepen relationships with customers.

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JPMorgan Chase's unhappy dad; Citi's uncooperative attitude

06/26/17

A dad challenges JPMorgan Chase’s parental leave policy. A shareholder proposal to address the gender pay gap gets shot down at Citigroup. Plus, Cathy Bessant, Yolande Piazza and Elizabeth Warren.

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How Yolande Piazza at Citi FinTech is ‘breaking glass’

06/22/17

The CEO of Citi’s innovation group says she and her staff of industry outsiders are driving change within the 215-year-old bank.

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Barclays faces criminal charges; Warren seeks to toss Wells directors

06/20/17

Bank, former executives said to have used Qatar money to avoid financial crisis bailout; Senator wants the Fed to use its power to oust board members over fake accounts scandal.

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Nine banks that have fallen short on the Fed's stress tests

06/19/17

Following are notable cases where banks were tripped up by the Fed's stress tests either by flunking the numbers (or quantitative) part of the test or raising red flags on a qualitative basis.

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Citigroup casts wide net on blockchain

06/13/17

A recently announced partnership with Nasdaq is one of multiple investments Citi has made in ventures related to distributed ledger technology, its chief financial officer said Tuesday.

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‘We’re in production’: Bank execs on the state of play for blockchain

06/13/17

While banks are in various stages of development when it comes to distributed ledger technology, the industry is farther along than many would assume, big-bank technology executives say.

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Trump OCC chief will stay away from big banks to avoid conflicts

06/12/17

The new acting chief of one of Washington’s major banking regulators has agreed to stay away from issues involving dozens of former legal clients, including 14 banks that the agency oversees, according to his ethics agreement.

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Why U.S. banks may take a back seat in Trump’s infrastructure push

06/09/17

Post-crisis financial rules have made the business of project lending less profitable for commercial banks. Foreign competitors have stepped in to fill the void, but U.S. banks can carve out a niche as bond offering managers and financial advisers.

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