Good old-fashioned commercial credit analysts are a dying breed, David Nicholson says. Community banks need them to stay competitive in C&I, but training courses have been cut back. So he’s on a mission to teach as many students as he can.
JPMorgan Chase, SunTrust and PNC are pressuring outside counsel to get more women and minority lawyers to represent them in court even at the risk of alienating the big, traditional law firms that they have done business with for years.
Tory Nixon, who became Umpqua's chief banking officer this spring, is trying to drive more customers to use mobile banking (only 15% do so now industrywide) without alienating them in the process.
Loan growth accelerated for those in our annual ranking of banks with assets of $10 billion to $50 billion. See which of these 65 regionals are the best performers.
Depending on the asset class, about 11% to 18% of earnings per share came from tax savings. The looming question is how do they top themselves in 2019 when tax rates don’t change like they did this year.
The French company's stake in First Hawaiian will fall to about a third after the secondary offer is completed, and First Hawaiian will buy some of the shares.