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U.S. Banker February 2002 Paul Muolo |
The Ginnie Mae Alternative Some enemies of Fannie and Freddie see hope in allowing Ginnie Mae to securitize high loan-to-value conventional mortgages. If it happens, it would be a coup for GE Capital Mortgage Insurance...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
Citigroup Thrives, While Chase Shrivels Citigroup is king -- of just about everything financial. For one thing, it has unseated Merrill Lynch & Co. from its 11-year reign as the nation's lead underwriter...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
Consumer Debt Getting Scary Fifth Third CEO George Schaefer often says, "trees don't grow to the sky." That may be true with trees, but it doesn't seem to be so with consumer credit...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
Household Gets Rapped California has locked a ball-and-chain around Household International's leg in punishment for cheating the finance company's customers in California...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
No Tears Shed Citigroup head Sandy Weill is shedding Citigroup's property and casualty insurance business, which had been an important unit of the Travelers Group. Weill headed Travelers before merging it with Citicorp more than three years ago to form Citigroup...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
What if Bank One Bought Bear Stearns? Sean Ryan, the former Bear Stearns bank stock analyst who now is an analyst at Fulcrum Global Partners, a securities brokerage firm, is reporting rumors that Bank One is considering buying Bear Stearns. This rumor probably is as baseless as most, but the idea may not be a bad one...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
Total Return Deceptive Total return, which includes dividends and stock appreciation, often can make a bad bank look good and a good bank look bad. That's what happened last year, based on Keefe, Bruyette & Wood's KBW 50 Index, which ranks each of the nation's 50 largest banks...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 |
Argentina Burning; Fleet, Too Riots in the streets, middle-class people going hungry, a government toppled. And FleetBoston Financial Corp. losing a bundle...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 Mark Bruno |
Chat while you bank At the Retail Delivery Show in Anaheim, technologists were bubbling with ideas about how to change automation in banking...  |
U.S. Banker February 2002 Mark Bruno |
CRM-in-a-Barn How can a banker really know if a particular vendor's software will fill the bill? E-Bank, which sells CRM software, has come up with an idea that it hopes will assuage such concerns...  |
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