Bank & Financial

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

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Bank Technology News December 2004 John Adams	Web Conferencing: Bond Street Joins The E-conference California firm Bond Street gets more bang out of its training buck by using a Webified way to decentralize instruction for employees on new products and regulations.
Bank Technology News December 2004 Shane Kite	Data Management: Hitting the Bull's-Eye On the Trading Floor An evolution in software allows bankers and brokerages to see what data they're actually using, helping them exercise better cost controls over a very expensive service
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Frederik Balfour	Bolstering China's Banks Beijing seems serious about bank reform, and bad-loan burdens are easing. China is racing to upgrade its banking system in advance of a 2007 WTO deadline for fully opening the sector to foreign competition.
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Joseph Weber	A New Headache For The Credit-Card Biz Credit-card outfits can't just fight among themselves anymore. Now they can add home-equity lenders to the list of rivals that are finding gold in America's growing mountain of consumer debt.
Registered Rep. December 2, 2004 John Churchill	SEC Overburdening Itself? The SEC narrowly succeeded in passing a final rule requiring hedge fund advisors to register under the Investment Adviser Act of 1940. But is the agency biting off more than it can chew?
The Motley Fool December 2, 2004 Bill Mann	Spitzer Helps Loan Sharks When the state doesn't allow companies to charge sufficient interest on high-risk payday loans legally, the black market fills the void.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2004 Rich Duprey	Rudy Giuliani's Investment Banking Move The former mayor will join the ranks of those he prosecuted in the 1980s. While Giuliani Capital Advisors will surely attract business through name recognition, it will probably not take away much business from the likes of industry giants Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, or Morgan Stanley.
OCC Bulletin December 1, 2004	Annual Report on Operating Subsidiaries The attached final rule, which amends 12 CFR 5.34 on national banks engaging in activities through operating subsidiaries, was published in the Federal Register on November 5, 2004 (69 FR 64478).
U.S. Banker December 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Fear Factor The banking industry is feeling blindsided. Stunned by the recent escalation in anti-money-laundering enforcement-punctuated by the International Bank of Miami, AmSouth and Riggs cases--the industry is on the defensive.
U.S. Banker December 2004 Holly Sraeel	The State of Financial Services, Now and Ahead The industry has seen record capital levels, with the top 25 bank holding companies growing faster than the sector as a whole.
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