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The sole branch of Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida is set to reopen Monday as a branch of Central Bank. Central Bank, a small Minnesota-based institution, has recently been buying up failed institutions...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed...
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The Federal Reserve on Monday proposed new rules to protect consumers from unexpected costs or restrictions on gift cards. Under the proposed rule, consumers must have at least five years to use the gift cards before they expire. The Fed also said service...
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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd said he wanted to produce a “bold” and “sweeping” financial reform bill. In other words, he’s got a bill that’s going to tick everyone off. The 1,136-page draft measure the Connecticut Democrat unveiled last...
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Friday, November 13, 2009 at 5:37 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 5:37 p.m. The Federal Reserve this week ordered the Orion Bank board of directors to fire Jerry J. Williams, its chairman, president and chief executive officer. The...
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Mortgage applications for home purchases fell to a nine-year low last week, despite a decrease in interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages. The weekly survey was taken for the week ended Nov. 6, the same day that President Obama signed an extension...
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Dodd (D-Conn.) is circulating a bill that would strip the Federal Reserve and other federal agencies of their powers to regulate the banking industry, instead creating a new agency to do that job. The bill would effect the most sweeping changes to the...
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United Commercial Bank, a big San Francisco bank with branches in China, was closed by state regulators on Friday and its banking operations were acquired by East West Bancorp Inc, also active in both nations. East West said the transaction made it the...
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Would you like the hard earned taxpayer's money be put in a bottomless bowl in the name of bailing out a bleeding financial firm? The like that the US Federal Reserve put in the case of financial behemoths Bear Stearns and AIG? Or, Ctibank if you like....
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Florida's public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple's Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling the homeowners their policy wouldn't be renewed because of the home's tainted Chinese drywall. Citizens...
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California bank regulators closed San Joaquin Bank of Bakersfield, Calif., the latest U.S. bank to fail this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which was named receiver, said San Joaquin had $775 million in assets and $631 million in deposits....
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