Regional banks

Inside Bank of the West's eastward expansion

10/16/17

The San Francisco bank hopes to win middle-market business from its new commercial offices in Cleveland and Dallas.

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Loan growth offsets fee-income drop at First Horizon

10/14/17

The Tennessee company reported 6% growth in loans, which included strong C&I and CRE grains. However, revenue shrank thanks partly to a steep falloff in fixed-income fees.

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Barb Godin is making Regions' lenders more accountable

10/13/17

Regions Financial's chief credit officer is leading a transformation in the way the company manages risk in its loan portfolio.

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Choose the company you work for carefully: Huntington's Mary Navarro

10/12/17

What's more important than which job you take? Which company you work for. That is one of the lessons Huntington’s Mary Navarro learned in her 42 years in banking.

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First Horizon buys commercial mortgage servicer

10/11/17

The Tennessee bank said it has bought Professional Mortgage in Greenville, S.C., which services about $1.1 billion of commercial mortgage loans for 23 correspondent life company lenders.

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Aggressive marketing, less red tape drive SBA boom

10/11/17

Efforts to make it easier for smaller businesses to apply for SBA loans, coupled by concerted expansion efforts among key regional and community banks, contributed to the third consecutive record for 7(a) lending.

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Standing pat is not an option in the quest for branch relevancy

10/10/17

Branches may be closing in droves, but they still play a key role in attracting and retaining customers. Here's how three banks are trying to maximize their potential.

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To get millennial clients, banks need millennial bankers

10/10/17

Millennials care about more than money. So it's important for recruiting efforts to show what bankers do for their communities.

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Highlights from the Most Powerful Women gala

10/06/17

A who’s who of banking industry executives turned out for the annual celebration of the Most Powerful Women. Pam Joseph won’t be the next CEO of TSYS after all, but Jamie Dimon seems to be setting JPMorgan Chase up for a female CEO. Does Marianne Lake have the edge?

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Dodd-Frank thresholds have ‘perverse effect,’ says acting comptroller

10/05/17

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Noreika on Thursday called for steps to ease the asset thresholds that determine whether banks are subject to certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act.

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