Bank & Financial

Magazine articles on banks, brokerages, and credit card companies.

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U.S. Banker July 2009 Karen Epper Hoffman	Up in the Clouds More banking information tech departments may be looking at a cloudy future -- and that's not a bad thing.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Anthony Malakian	A Whole New World Bank of North Dakota makes about 70 percent of the student loans in its home state, but if the Obama Administration has its way, the $3.5 billion-asset bank would be out of the origination business by this time next year.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Glen Fest	Bidder Medicine While its house was burning down, BankUnited of Coral Gables, Fla., was on a deposit-gathering spree.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Glen Fest	Assuming an Old Remedy Maybe it's time lenders dust off an old idea -- the so-called simple assumption loan.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Joseph Rosta	FASB Waves Goodbye to "Qs" The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to eliminate the concept of qualified special purpose entities.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Alan Kline	Raking in the Fee Income Among bank holding companies, Citigroup Inc. remains the industry leader in generating insurance revenue, but rivals Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp. are closing the gap.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Anthony Malakian	Getting in the Game To help promote its new contactless payment card, Barclays plc produced a video game aimed at young consumers -- the demographic the bank sees as most likely to use the card.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Anthony Malakian	New Ally, Big Splash Despite its ties to the beleaguered General Motors and its own capital concerns, GMAC Bank had little trouble attracting deposits after it established a bank holding company in December.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Glen Fest	The Dollars and Sense of Going Mobile Banks that latched onto mobile banking a few years ago were more interested in first-mover advantage than profitability.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Steve Garmhausen	Keeping a Tight Schedule The retail banking manager at Mechanics Bank in Richmond, Calif., calls the bank's recent investment in sophisticated scheduling technology a "no-brainer."
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