Bank failure in New Jersey is nation's third in a week

11/01/19

The FDIC sold the operations of City National Bank of New Jersey, a minority depository institution, to Industrial Bank in Washington, D.C., in the year's fourth closure.

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CIT pledges $7.75B reinvestment as part of Mutual of Omaha deal

11/01/19

CIT Group has agreed to lend and invest the money mostly in California as well as in the eight states where Mutual of Omaha Bank has branches.

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JPMorgan tests its Amazon-Berkshire health venture on bank employees

11/01/19

JPMorgan Chase and Amazon.com have begun testing the new health care venture they're developing with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, rolling out some of the new offerings to employees in a handful of states.

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Santander joins crowded field of online deposit gathering

11/01/19

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.

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Dozens of lawmakers urge more flood insurance reforms

11/01/19

A group of 64 House lawmakers is pushing congressional leadership to incorporate premium caps and address a new methodology for assessing risk in flood insurance reform legislation.

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Amex's immigrant assist, the Libor void, bank failures: Top stories of the week

11/01/19

New tech lets American Express instantly issue cards to immigrants; the end of Libor raises concerns about financial stability; regulators shutter banks in Kentucky and Ohio; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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Q2 buys PrecisionLender for $510 million

11/01/19

PrecisionLender, the digital banking software vendor's largest acquisition to date, sells sales coaching software.

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Fintech will reshape how entrepreneurs seek loans

11/01/19

The more things change in small-business lending, the more they stay the same, going back as far as 3,000 years. But in this book excerpt, Karen Mills, former head of the Small Business Administration, predicts momentous changes ahead.

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Scharf signals ‘sense of urgency’ at Wells; Europe weighs new AML agency

11/01/19

CEO tells employees he wants them to be 'impatient' in fixing the bank’s woes; the new independent body would police banks’ compliance with AML regulations.

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'Enough with the scare tactics': Comments of the week

10/31/19

Readers react to Sen. Warren's plan to weed out Washington corruption, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress, restricting the Federal Reserve's proposed real-time payments system and more.

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