Bank & Financial

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U.S. Banker March 2008 Michael Sisk	Recession or Not, BofA Deal Recommits to Consumer Just weeks after BofA agreed to purchase Countrywide Financial for a price that deeply discounted the value of its mortgage holdings, the Federal Reserve stepped up its aggressive rate cutting, taking some pressure off adjustable-rate mortgages and spurring a refinancing mini boom.
U.S. Banker March 2008 John Adams	Citi Revamping Links Origination, Securitization The ramifications of CitiGroup's $18 billion in losses in subprime-mortgage-related exposure has forced a sweeping corporate reorganization that tightens the risk-management relationship between origination and capital-markets activity.
U.S. Banker March 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Wall Street Banks Go Greener with Principles on Power Sector Three of the world's top financial institutions have released The Carbon Principles: climate-change guidelines for advisors and lenders to U.S. coal and other greenhouse gas-intensive industries.
U.S. Banker March 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Is the OTS Obsolete? The Office of Thrift Supervision is the smallest and the agency most vulnerable to elimination, particularly with Countrywide's acquisition by Bank of America and Washington Mutual's uncertain fate.
U.S. Banker March 2008 John Adams	Another Lending Sector Teeters on the Edge Like a bad virus, the subprime-mortgage-driven plague is spreading from one sector of banking to another.
U.S. Banker March 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Great, Great Grandkids: Until Their Death Do We Part Banks are realizing that the dynasty trust, that multigenerational, flexible, tax-avoidance technique ever more popular in wealth-management circles, is surprisingly well-suited to the kind of long-term trusteeship at which they excel.
U.S. Banker March 2008 John Adams	The Complex Role Of CRO Is Reexamined Amid a sea of bad earnings and writedowns, banks are reexamining their risk-mitigation strategies.
U.S. Banker March 2008 Anthony Malakian	Would Rewards Help Your Client Feel Better? Bank-marketing firms are trying to spin an upside message, using various rewards programs to rebuild tarnished customer relations.
U.S. Banker March 2008 Karen Krebsbach	`Chasing What Matters' Doesn't Matter Much JPMorgan Chase's new branding campaign doesn't provide any of the humor, pizzazz or warmth of its rivals' campaigns.
U.S. Banker March 2008 Joseph Rosta	2007: The Year Of the Silent Scream The banking-sector recession showed up clearly in an annual ranking of the top 100 institutions by three-year average return on equity.
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