Bank & Financial

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

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BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Dean Foust	Forget Those Comfy Old Rules About Fraud Banks still absolve consumers of any losses from the fraudulent use of credit cards -- even months later. Most also now waive even that modest $50 payment. That's not the case for business cards, though.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Brian Bremner	Can Sony Afford To Get Focused? It's under pressure to spin off financial services -- a real moneymaker
Registered Rep. March 18, 2005 Will Leitch	Wachovia: On the Recruiting Warpath Wachovia Securities, the third-largest brokerage in the country, has announced an "aggressive" new strategy: the creation of the Individual Investor Group, entirely devoted to the recruitment and retention of individual brokers.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Hey, It's Just $2 Billion! JP Morgan Chase agrees to pay $2 billion to settle WorldCom litigation. For investors who worry that this tomfoolery may portend related monsters lurking in JP's closet, then the stock might not be down enough.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Lawrence Meyers	Pay Cut for Payday Lenders? New FDIC guidelines for payday lenders are no reason to panic. There's magic in doing your own research. And when bad news hits your stock, don't panic! At least not until you're sure there's reason to.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2005 Tom Taulli	Lehman Lunges Ahead Good times continue at the investment banks. Lehman believes that the economy is rebounding and that there is renewed confidence in Corporate America, which should continue the M&A wave.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2005 Rich Smith	Banker Dons a Black Hat In written testimony to the congressional committee investigating the security of customer data, Bank of America argued that the law should not require companies to inform their customers of security breaches that put their data at risk.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	When Brokers Bite Back Schwab is suing TD Waterhouse for running ads that it claims are deceptive, misleading, and false, but the whole industry may enjoy the legal spotlight.
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Amy Borrus	Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters.
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Gail Edmondson	Banca Intesa: Bring 'Em On Italy's largest bank is ready to fight off new competition if Italy lifts limits on foreign takeovers.
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