Bank & Financial

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BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 David Henry	How The Bad News Could Get Worse If delinquencies lead to downgrades of mortgage-backed securities, ripples could become waves.
U.S. Banker May 2007 John Engen	Texas Envy In Texas, local banks are still small-fry on the national stage. Will the Recent entrance of Big new Players significantly change the Financial Complexion of the Lone Star State? Don't Bet on it.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Holly Sraeel	Prepaid Forecast Bodes Well for Financial Players Regulation, the ability to achieve scale and consumer-adoption rates are all factors that must be weighed in banks' prepaid plans. Still, the future of prepaid is clear. So what are banks waiting for?
U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad	Subprime Mortgages: As the Knot Unravels, A Question Lingers: Why? Consumers and companies following their self-interest are supposed to be guiding forces that drive a capitalist economy. The recent meltdown of the subprime-mortgage market, however, raises the question of whether all participants were headed in that direction.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Karen Krebsbach	As Wal-Mart Yanks ILC Request, Wags Wonder About Remittances A TowerGroup analyst says a bigger push for the $1 billion overseas remittance-services market makes perfect sense for Wal-Mart.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Karen Krebsbach	Executive Pay, Still in the Hot Seat Shareholders are trying to gain more influence on executive pay as more resolutions hit the agenda at firms' annual meetings. But passage is proving to be tough.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Michael Dumiak	Web Risk: Interactive Web Entices, But Is Difficult to Secure Leading financial institutions are trying to balance the marketing and business development possibilities offered by new Web 2.0 functions with the security risks they pose.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Web Collaboration: Wouldn't Wikis Be Wicked Wonderful? Wikis are an intriguing collaborative tool, and Wells Fargo is leading the charge in experimenting with them. But wikis use among financial institutions may always be limited to internal use.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad	Enterprise Video Technology Cuts Out the Middle Man To reach customers, investors and analysts directly, some banks are taking a page from the success of YouTube and the like to create and distribute content via the Web and branch kiosks.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Karen Krebsbach	AD Beat: BofA's 'Opportunity' Ads Offer Window Into Future What if your customers could see their future? What if their bank could help them get there? That aspirational message is central to Bank of AMerica's new branding campaign.
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