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A Federal Housing Finance Agency program that allows some homeowners to finance without mortgage insurance is the first step down the slippery slope to a more volatile mortgage market.
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At a time when the client experience is growing increasingly similar across different banking platforms, the banks that succeed will be those that deliver services tailored to the precise needs of individual customers.
August 27
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Legislation that would place new rules on organizations that help consumers reduce their debt burden should not exempt services that have historically favored the priorities of lenders over debtors.
August 26
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Community banks stand to gain from the proliferation of stablecoins. Organized programs meant to convince community bankers that stablecoins will drain their deposits are disingenuous.
August 25
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As regulators look to finalize the Basel III endgame rules, they would do the banking industry and American homebuyers a service by recognizing the risk-reducing role mortgage insurance plays on bank balance sheets.
August 24
A former Democratic congressman will serve as vice president of wholesale banking at Truist Financial; Bank of America's $72.5 million settlement with sex trafficking victims of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein is approved by a New York federal judge; HDFC plans to challenge the bankruptcy resolution involving a personal guarantee by media tycoon Subhash Chandra; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
More than half of the independent brokerages participating in this year's IBD Elite study declined to disclose the share of women among financial advisors at their firms. Those that did provide data have done more to advance women than many of their rivals in the independent brokerage channel of wealth management.
In an age of employee burnout, credit unions stand out as places where workers are unusually satisfied with their jobs. Here are the best 70 to work for.
Brent Reston will serve as BMO Financial Group's inaugural chief digital officer; LCNB Corp. appoints Susan Zaunbrecher to its board; HSBC and Standard Chartered complete a bank-to-bank tokenized deposit transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger; and more in this week's banking news roundup
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