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MUFG hires restaurant bankers away from Wells Fargo
MUFG promotes Neal Holland to CFO of its Americas operations
MUFG's Kevin Cronin promoted to CEO of Union Bank
Previously head of corporate and investment banking in the Americas, Cronin will replace Stephen Cummings as president and CEO of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group's U.S. holding company, as well as its San Francisco-based bank. ... Read full article
Santander names Habis head of consumer, business banking
Habis, who joins the bank from MUFG Union Bank, will replace Michael Cleary, who left Santander last fall and recently joined Wells Fargo. ... Read full article
M&T snags JPM exec, banking deserts, goodbye legacy cores: Top stories of the week
M&T hires Aarthi Murali away from JPMorgan Chase as its customer experience chief; when a small town loses its only bank; why more banks are ditching their legacy core vendors; and more from this week’s most-read stories. ... Read full article
MUFG Union Bank names ex-Sterling CEO Seibly its president
Greg Seibly guided Sterling through the financial crisis before engineering its sale to Umpqua Holdings in 2014. He is currently CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. ... Read full article
Santander joins crowded field of online deposit gathering
The Boston bank’s online money market account won’t start until later next year, and many rivals have already beaten it to the punch. But the window for new entrants is still open provided they do certain things right, experts say. ... Read full article
Biggest banks sit out industry climate-goals pledge
Only three of the world's 10 biggest banks joined the coalition of 130 global financial firms in agreeing to align their business with international efforts to address climate change and other environmental issues. ... Read full article
Santander Bank names longtime MUFG Union executive its CEO
The hiring of Tim Wennes was one a series of leadership changes announced Wednesday by the holding company for the bank and the auto lender Santander Consumer. ... Read full article
How MUFG’s ‘digital hybrid’ bank raised $7B in deposits
Pierre Habis, president of PurePoint Financial, explains how the digital bank and small network of paperless branches are meeting consumers’ needs. ... Read full article
Fifth Third, Discover, BMO Financial: Bankers on the move
Some of the biggest industry moves in May and early June were not executive promotions, but rather departures. ... Read full article
Where did JPMorgan Chase's Finn experiment go wrong?
The bank launched Finn in an effort to attract millennials. But there were problems with how it implemented the digital-only brand, experts said. ... Read full article
JPMorgan to shutter Finn and shift customers to Chase Mobile
A year after launching the digital bank, JPMorgan Chase has concluded that the millennials it targeted don't need a separate brand. ... Read full article
Ex-JPM exec banned; banks fear being left behind
Former Managing Director Timothy Fletcher banished for role in referral hiring; Apple-Goldman collaboration shows banks fear missing out. ... Read full article
MUFG ordered to improve anti-money-laundering compliance
The OCC said that branches in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago will be required to take certain corrective actions, but it did not hit the Japanese-owned bank with any financial penalties. ... Read full article
Blockchain slashes approval time on syndicated loans, BBVA says
BBVA, BNP Paribas and MUFG recently used BBVA's blockchain to reach an agreement within 24 hours — instead of two weeks — to lend a Spanish power company $150 million. ... Read full article
MUFG poaches top technology exec from U.S. Bancorp
Christopher Higgins will join MUFG Americas in December as chief information and operations officer. ... Read full article
For MUFG's Ranjana Clark, cultural transformation comes from clarity
In the newly created role of chief transformation officer, Ranjana Clark is in charge of ensuring MUFG stays ahead of tech disruption. She said that entails nothing less than a kind of cultural revolution. ... Read full article
Enid Jean-Claude: Change begins with a conversation
The banking industry needs to work on getting more minority women into positions of power, and that starts with having conversations not only about gender but also race, MUFG's Jean-Claude said. "You don't see women of color reaching the ... Read full article
