Bank & Financial

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

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Wall Street & Technology January 4, 2005 Kerry Massaro	Making a Choice What does it mean when the most powerful floor-based exchange in the world introduces a hybrid marketplace? It can only mean one thing: This is the beginning of the end of the auction market
Reason January 2005 Julian Sanchez	Fannie Business An investigation by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight found that Fannie Mae systematically misapplied generally accepted accounting practices and manipulated earnings reports to maintain an aura of stability.
Registered Rep. January 4, 2005 Will Leitch	Brokerages Respond to Tsunami Tragedy As Americans donate to tsunami disaster-relief efforts, the brokerage industry is chipping in as well. According to the SIA, there is no organized industrywide effort to raise relief funds, but individual firms are doing their part.
Bank Technology News January 2005 Holly Sraeel	Can IT Investments Sustain Growth Across FIs? As CEOs and CFOs become more involved in how technology will shape the growth and efficiency of their financial organizations, CIOs are finding that what they bring to the table is vital to ensuring that business objectives are met.
Bank Technology News January 2005 John Adams	Processing: BB&T Cashes In Its CHIPS For a Better Backstop By reducing the costs of entry, banks can hook up with CHIPS and have a viable backup that's less expensive than in the past.
Bank Technology News January 2005 Shane Kite	Customer Profitability: To Boost Sales Banks Try to Be Mr. Fix-Its Banks and brokers are trying to tune up loyalty outreaches and boost wallet-share by finally moving away from episodic cross selling to a long-term troubleshooting approach.
Bank Technology News January 2005 John Adams	On-Line Foreign Exchange: Wells, S1 Tag Team International Trade International trade is growing by leaps and bounds for Wells Fargo, which hopes a Web-based foreign exchange alliance with S1 will place it firmly ahead of the curve as cross border business banking continues to grow.
Bank Technology News January 2005 Michael Sisk	The Post-October 28 World: It's Time for a Reality Check on Check 21 Believe it or not, there are still many misconceptions about the law among the public, which banks must battle as they gradually implement new checking technology.
U.S. Banker January 2005 John Engen	Twenty Twenty Vision The economy might be lukewarm, but banks in the Pacific Northwest are hot. It's not unusual to see ROEs and P/Es hovering at 20. The region's rise as a banking power center is due to a crop of sharp CEOs adeptly firing up the front lines and outperforming their national peers.
U.S. Banker January 2005 Holly Sraeel	MasterCard. Visa. Amex. Welcome to the Sandbox. Citibank's decision to issue Amex cards to its customers will force other large banks to follow suit -- exactly what MasterCard and Visa have been dreading.
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