Investor confidence

Why executives are spending millions to buy their banks' stock

11/15/18

A broad decline in bank stocks and investor concerns about specific companies are among the reasons for a spike in insider purchases.

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Lighter reg touch could be mixed blessing for regionals

11/06/18

The Federal Reserve Board plan to revise its post-crisis framework promises reduced compliance costs and other benefits. But some analysts see the removal of guardrails as increasing failure risk, which may spook investors.

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Investors question State Street; regionals worry about trade effect

07/23/18

Purchase of data firm and cancellation of a stock buyback rile shareholders; smaller banks are concerned tariffs could hurt business lending.

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Your bank's been hacked. How soon should investors be told?

06/07/18

That’s the question executives of publicly traded banks are asking themselves as they try to make sense of new — and somewhat vague — guidance from the SEC on procedures for disclosing data breaches.

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Grin and bear it: The wisdom of getting along with bank analysts

02/15/18

Having solid relationships with those who cover the banking industry can lend credibility to management teams, especially when times are tough.

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Carlyle, Anchorage cash out of crisis-era bank investment

01/26/18

The private-equity firms, which invested in a predecessor to Union Bancshares in May 2010, sold their shares for a total of $301 million.

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‘Hogs get slaughtered’: Comments of week

06/30/17

Readers criticized a credit union securitization proposal, weighed in on scaling back the CFPB’s complaint database, debated the need for banks to examine gender-based salary comparisons, and more.

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How marketplace lenders’ efforts to be more banklike could backfire

06/23/17

Operational changes may be enticing to investors, but they threaten the very foundation of marketplace lending, potentially shutting out those the burgeoning sector was meant to serve.

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