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U.S. Banker
January 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
Happy warrior George A. Schaefer Jr.'s Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp is tearing up the ground wherever it chooses to go. The question is whether Schaefer will be able to sustain Fifth Third's sinewy culture as the company gets bigger and spreads its wings...   |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
National City's Many Moves The regional bank reports a complicated third quarter, decent results, and improving growth prospects. Investors, take note. |
U.S. Banker
May 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
Smaller Is Better Smaller was better in 2001 among the nation's 100 largest banks and thrifts. For the most part, the success of the smaller companies reflects their ability to focus on highly profitable niches -- especially mortgage originations during last year's boom... |
U.S. Banker
February 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
Learning from Disaster Hibernia CEO J. Herbert Boydstun has made substantial progress in turning the $16.3 billion-asset bank around, and is becoming very unbanker-like in building what he would describe as a jungle sales culture... |
U.S. Banker
November 2001 |
Babb Sees No Dramatic Changes Comerica is not a flashy company, and neither is its CEO-to-be Ralph Babb Jr., who says he doesn't plan to change things very much... |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2011
John Engen |
Fast Break U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis has brought a fast paced, high scoring game to one of the most conservative banks in the country. |
U.S. Banker
October 2001
Robert A. Bennett |
Home Depot is his model Just as Home Depot has simplified home maintenance and expansion, Dick Kovacevich, chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo & Co., wants to help consumers design financial plans and implement them... |
U.S. Banker
April 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
Unfairly Treated? Is there regulatory discrimination against smaller banks and thrifts? That question is raised by how the OTS treated the $851 million-asset Progress Financial Corp. Badly chastised, management of the Philadelphia-area company is rethinking a number of key issues... |
U.S. Banker
September 2001
Robert A. Bennett |
Marty McGuinn, Revolutionary Mellon's CEO doesn't look particularly macho, but he's aggressively taken the bull by the horns and returned his venerable bank to its trust company roots... |
FDIC FYI
November 26, 2002 |
Quarterly Banking Profile Commercial Banking Performance, Third Quarter 2002 Gains on securities sales keep earnings near record level... Weakness in overseas operations limits industry profits... Margins improve at community banks, decline at larger institutions... Strong mortgage demand fuels growth in loans... Asset-quality problems continue to grow at large banks |
U.S. Banker
August 2003
Michael Dumiak |
Coast to Coast There are as many ways to mint money as grains of sand on the beach. In the mid-Atlantic, the WSFS team does it with savvy sales moves. In Michigan, Flagstar's moving mortgages. In the shadow of the Golden Gate, Westamerica is humming and looking to buy. They lead the USB 100 of mid-tier banks. |
FDIC FYI
August 29, 2002 |
Strong Bank Earnings Reflect Nature of U.S. Downturn Second quarter 2002 earnings results for commercial banks show that the benefits of a steep yield curve continue to outweigh the costs of higher credit losses. |
FDIC FYI
March 13, 2002 |
Banks and Thrifts Post Record Earnings, Insurance Funds Slide Full-year 2001 financial data for all FDIC-insured institutions, released today in the Quarterly Banking Profile, depict record bank and thrift earnings even as the reserve ratios of the FDIC insurance funds continue to slide... |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008
Kristen French |
The Lending Squeeze The tightening credit conditions is causing some financial advisors to have trouble getting loans for clients. |
U.S. Banker
December 2001
Bennett & Bruno |
Getting Your Money's Worth Should banks quantify their prospective returns on their investments in technology? Is it possible? When should a bank build technology internally, or buy it from outside vendors? |
FDIC FYI
June 3, 2002 |
Favorable Interest-Rate Environment Drives Record First-Quarter Bank Earnings Commercial banks earned a record $21.7 billion in the first quarter of 2002, besting the previous quarterly earnings record set in the first quarter of 2001 by 9.6 percent. |
U.S. Banker
April 2005
John Engen |
Battleground State Ohio is headquarters to four of the nation's biggest banks, and plenty more have laid claims there. The competition is good for the Buckeye state's consumers and businesses. But is it good for the banks? |
U.S. Banker
October 2001
Jack Milligan |
He'll Take Manhattan Disdainful of his rivals, Vern Hill, CEO of New Jersey's Commerce Bancorp, is plunging into the New York City retail banking market. He is determined to beat the world's biggest banks in their own backyard, and then to move north to Boston... |
FDIC FYI
February 27, 2002 |
Loan Weakness Spreads; Banks' Defenses Hold Large banks' business loans have been hit hardest by the recession, but some weakening is now appearing for smaller banks and for other kinds of loans... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Robert Rennhack |
Banking Supervision Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, like other emerging markets, have experienced banking system difficulties that have hampered growth and generated fiscal costs as high as 10 to 20 percent of GDP and even more. Many countries have improved their banking systems, but further reform is needed. |
U.S. Banker
January 2002
Paul Muolo |
Angelo Mozilo: Deposit Builder Countrywide's CEO expects its tiny bank in Virginia to amass $20 billion in deposits within three years... |
U.S. Banker
May 2003
John Engen |
Out of Step They're exempt from state and local taxes and from registering most securities with the SEC. They have sharply lower capital requirements. Combined, these factors give Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a gargantuan advantage in the market. Their "mission creep" has most bankers seeing red. |
U.S. Banker
May 2003
Michael Dumiak |
Performance Built One Mortgage at a Time Flagstar. Hudson United. Doral. USB's annual performance ranking proves being biggest doesn't make you best. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Ready for the Re Lender restraint helps keep markets stable. |
FDIC FYI
January 14, 2003 |
Basel and the Evolution of Capital Regulation: Moving Forward, Looking Back How much capital is enough? How bank regulators have answered this question during the post World War II period has been shaped by two contending strands of thought. |
FDIC FYI
November 4, 2003
Puwalski & Williams |
Economic Conditions and Emerging Risks in Banking The two main economic concerns of the past two years, a lack of new jobs and lackluster business investment, finally appear poised to subside. |
U.S. Banker
October 2001
Paul Muolo |
How Long Can the Good Times Last? The mortgage industry enjoyed record production in the first half, but the party can't go on forever. Includes an outlook for the property market nationwide... |
OCC Bulletin
April 4, 2001 |
Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities. |
U.S. Banker
April 2002
Paul Muolo |
2001 Great, But Not Perfect Residential loan volumes hit amazing records in 2001, but the picture wasn't so cheery on the servicing side... |
FDIC FYI
October 28, 2003 |
The Changing Paradigm in Commercial Real Estate A transcript of a roundtable discussion with commercial real estate and commercial mortgage-backed securities experts |
OCC Bulletin
May 22, 2002 |
Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates... |
FDIC FYI
April 11, 2002 |
Economic Conditions and Emerging Risks in Banking The report describes recent signs of a consumer-led recovery in the U.S. economy that may have begun in the first quarter... |
Entrepreneur
August 2002
C.J. Prince |
Take This Hand Banks are looking to find a nice entrepreneur and settle down. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2007
Tom Hutchinson |
USB: A Textbook Play for Today's Market US Bancorp is one of the largest and most profitable banks in the country, and one of the most unjustly victimized in the sub-prime mess. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2003
Len Deering |
Multifamily Property Owners Benefit From Competitive Financing Soft occupancies force lenders to be more creative in competing for multifamily loans. |
FDIC FYI
October 8, 2002 |
Syndicated Credits Deteriorate, But at a Slower Pace Large banking organizations are continuing to feel the effects of the recession, as syndicated loan quality remains generally weak. |
Bank Technology News
September 2003
Karen Krebsbach |
FIS Brushes Off Its Passport Overseas plans started with Alltel acquisition |
U.S. Banker
January 2002 |
Beware the Syndicators Citigroup and J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., which syndicated billions of dollars of loans to Enron, should have known the truth about Enron�'s condition, and should not have had to depend on outside accountants or on the various rating agencies... |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2003
Thomas Jaekel |
Low Rates Help Insulate Commercial Markets From Unstable Economy Slower growth is an indication of the market's discipline and bodes well for the commercial real estate industry in light of an unpredictable economy. |
AskMen.com
March 4, 2001
Luis Rodrigues |
The Truth About Bank Loans When the time comes to borrow money from the bank to buy a house, a car or start a business, people still get extremely stressed about meeting with the banking loans officer... |
Inc.
February 1, 2003
Kenneth Klee |
Returns: More Reasons to Love Your Banker These days your best bet for investing your money may well be the same place you borrow it from. |
U.S. Banker
August 2001
Ted Cornwell |
Fears of Defaults Subprime loans are behind the fears. They have not been tested in a declining economy and analysts don't know what to expect. |
U.S. Banker
November 2002
Karen Krebsbach |
Citigroup's Big Bet on China China is the final financial frontier for U.S. banks, as the country's protectionist measures begin to dissolve under WTO membership. Citibank, which has been offering corporate services on the mainland since 1902, is poised to grab a large share. But will being the early bird pay off? |
OCC Bulletin
June 28, 2001 |
Prohibition Against Interstate Deposit Production The Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation recently issued updated host state loan-to-deposit ratios that the banking agencies will use to determine compliance... |
U.S. Banker
February 2002
John Hackett |
Deposits Grow Despite Drop in Rates The stock market has driven depositors into the arms of banks, but will this love dissolve if the market comes back? |
OCC Bulletin
October 13, 1999 |
Interagency Guidelines for Real Estate Lending Policies New guidelines discuss the credit risks associated with high loan-to-value residential real estate lending and remind national banks that the 1992 Interagency Guidelines for Real Estate Lending Policies apply to these transactions... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
In Search of a New Investment Banking Model: The Debate Goes On One of the panels at the recent student-sponsored Wharton Finance Conference was subtitled: "In Search of the Optimal Business Model for Investment Banking." Given the current pall on Wall Street, that search has taken on new urgency. |
OCC Bulletin
July 22, 2002 |
Prohibition Against Interstate Deposit Production The Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation recently issued updated host-state loan-to- deposit ratios that the banking agencies will use to determine compliance with section 109 of the Interstate Act. |
U.S. Banker
December 2003
John Engen |
An Investor's Kind of Guy M&T Bank chief Robert Wilmers' penchant for bank buys hints at his willingness to take risks. Yet it is his bank's disciplined execution and annual returns that have made billionaire Warren Buffett and other shrewd investors believers in Wilmers' block-and-tackle game. |
Entrepreneur
August 2003
Crystal Detamore-Rodman |
Give 'Em Credit They're not just for car loans and home mortgages. Now credit unions are making business loans. |
