Deposits

No room for rate chasers: Online banks try new pricing strategies

10/10/18

CIT Bank and Simple recently started offering higher yields on the condition that customers make regular contributions to savings. The offers are designed to help the banks avoid rate wars, but some analysts question whether they will appeal to enough consumers.

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Small banks’ big challenge: Growing deposits

09/25/18

New data from the FDIC shows that banks with less than $10 billion of assets are ceding deposit share to their larger rivals. What can they do to keep pace?

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Retailers target rewards cards; Deutsche Bank scolded on AML

09/25/18

Large retailers want the right to reject rewards cards at the point of sale to avoid higher swipe fees; Germany's financial regulator appoints an auditor to monitor the Deutsche Bank's progress.

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Revamping deposit products at Zions required convincing employees first

09/23/18

Zions is streamlining its 500 deposit products as part of a massive core conversion, and its female executives are leading the effort.

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SunTrust glitch, Amazon and Google mortgages, Tim Sloan job security: Top stories of the week

09/21/18

"Normal system upgrade" knocks out SunTrust's online- and mobile-banking ops; "just a matter of time" before Amazon, Google enter mortgages; Wells Fargo looking for Tim Sloan's replacement?; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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Deposit growth is top of new Goldman banking chief’s to-do list

09/17/18

Carey Halio, who becomes CEO of Goldman Sachs Bank USA next month, wants to sustain its drive for consumer deposits and add products that make it more of a primary bank for customers.

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Goldman Sachs names Carey Halio head of its banking unit

09/17/18

Halio has served as chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs Bank USA for the past four years, and she previously worked in the company’s credit risk division

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Banks and Thrifts with the Most Deposits

09/17/18

On Jun. 30, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

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The other housing crisis, Dimon v. Trump, small-dollar lending: Top stories of the week

09/14/18

A new, 10-part podcast series examining housing blight; JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon baits President Trump; U.S. Bank returns to small-dollar lending; and more from this week’s most-read stories.

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FDIC proposal would ease regs on certain deposits

09/13/18

The proposal, required by the regulatory relief package that Congress passed in May, would exempt the healthiest banks from having to count reciprocal deposits as brokered deposits.

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