Bank & Financial

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U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad	Community Banks Struggle To Know 'Indirect' Clients Indirect channels to customers, particularly check-cashing services, reduce a bank's control of the customer and exposes it to potential money laundering. New products are stepping in to help.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad	How Best to Spur Usage Of Untapped Lines of Credit? Only 60 percent of homeowners with equity lines of credit have accessed them in the past year. To nudge the other 40 percent, banks might consider hybrid loans and better analysis of customer data.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Nothing Says 'Prepared' Like a Prepaid Card for Victims Banks such as BofA and JPMorgan Chase are teaming with relief organizations and governments to put prepaid cards into the hands of disaster victims. Even insurers see them as a way to streamline claims.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Thomas P. Vartanian	Crisis and Opportunity In Subprime Mortgage Markets Problems in the subprime mortgage business will inevitably lead to opportunities for those who can evaluate, service or manage the underlying loans, securities and real estate.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Kenneth Long	Reinventing the Checking Account Banks that haven't reinvented their checking accounts to better serve their customers, thus more firmly sealing them to the institutions, may soon find they have fewer customers about which to worry.
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 Emily Thornton	Roads To Riches Why investors are clamoring to take over America's highways, bridges, and airports - and why the public should be nervous.
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 Weber & Goldstein	What's Next, Mr. Greifeld? NASDAQ is humming. Robert Greifeld's contract was just extended. But Wall Street wants more.
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 Stanley Reed	Europe: The Making Of A Monolith ABN AMRO signals the euro zone's superpower status.
Registered Rep. April 26, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Hydie Sumner Fired by Wachovia It's been ten years of legal wrangling with Hydie Sumner's former employer, Merrill Lynch. But today it's another firm at the center of the Sumner drama -- Wachovia Securities, which fired her yesterday.
Registered Rep. April 25, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Women Win Another Round: Morgan Stanley to Pay $46 million in Gender Discrimination Settlement The financial firm decided it will shell out over $46 million to 2,700 female advisors and trainees who say the firm discriminated against them with respect to account distributions, compensation, training and promotions.
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