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U.S. Banker December 2001 Davis & Rosenbloom |
Now Could Be the Time to Sell The right moves taken today can help banks get the best deal for themselves, their equity holders and their employees...  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 Robert A. Bennett |
Gramlich's Words of Warning His suggested caution on subprime mortgage lending should be taken seriously...  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 |
Deposit-Equity Balance Earlier this year, banks were pleased to see a healthy inflow of deposits, those low-cost funds that help keep interest-rate margins strong. Many banks have been reporting increases of more than 10% over the previous year...  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 |
Giannini Wanna-Be Gary Lewis Evans' formula is to make big profits by delivering banking over the Internet. The regular formula -- low costs because of no bricks and mortar -- and customers can get a better deal. Heard it before?  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 |
Genius Fails, or Was It Panic? The geniuses at Providian Financial thought they had it all figured out. Life to them could be deciphered with a slide rule. They thought they could figure out patterns and determine how groups of people would behave. It worked brilliantly -- for a while...  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 |
Walking on Hot Coals You've got to hand it to them. Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank and COO Nigel Morris are putting their money where their mouths are, or you might say they're walking on hot coals. The executives are forgoing salary and bonus for a bet that they can bump their stock price over 3 years...  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 Mark Bruno |
Wizard of NextCard Exposed NextCard's wizard has been exposed, and now the man behind the curtain is feeling the heat from regulators and Wall Street...  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 Mark Bruno |
Siebel's Latest Big Catch: National City Siebel Systems has been reinforcing its lock on the big-bank CRM market. It has announced a number of new deals in recent weeks, but none is as big as its latest catch, Cleveland's $96 billion National City Corp...  |
U.S. Banker November 2001 Robert A. Bennett |
Fed on the Defensive The Federal Reserve is a dignified institution and its mentality is not that of a street fighter. But that's what it must become if it is to succeed in battling the private sector for dominance of the electronics payments system...  |
U.S. Banker November 2001 Paul Sweeney |
Maverick Banker A look at Stearns Bank could send jitters up the spines of less creative bankers than CEO Norman Skalicky. Though he breaks all the rules, it's hard to criticize a banker who has produced an average ROE of 25.9% over the last five years, and whose loan portfolio looks mighty clean...  |
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