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...(Park Bancorp v Byrne Hobart) — Levine on Euroclear (BBG $) — A true Southern ghost story for your spooky holiday weekend (The Bitter Southerner) — Llamas and alpacas “happily walking to Penrith” (BBC...
...Vernon Hill, the former chair of UK retail lender Metro Bank, is asking a federal court to block a move by his boardroom adversaries to oust him as chair of a US bank called Republic First Bancorp....
...Na’am, yes. He handed back my things and told me I was welcome to go anywhere I wanted in the Islamic emirate, apologising and asking if I was upset with him....
...Other expected participants included executives from Visa, Mastercard, Bank of America, Grand Rapids State Bank, Southern Bancorp and Community Spirit Bank, according to a White House official....
...Two southern banks, BB&T and SunTrust, hooked up in February to create a bank called Truist, with $460bn in assets....
...In December, Georgia-based Ameris Bancorp, a regular acquirer of community banks across the south, agreed to buy Fidelity Southern for a premium of almost 30 per cent....
...“Modi hai to mumkin hai” — (“If it’s Modi, all is possible”) and “Na mumkin ab mumkin hai” (“The impossible is now possible”) are slick, but lend themselves to skewering by Twitter’s reliable wits....
...They’re not Na’vi from Avatar — they’re the descendants of refugees. The Kayapo, who are around 10,000 strong, control an area bigger than Scotland but everybody wants what they have....
...Four community banks across the southern US announced consolidation plans on Tuesday — and shares in three of them fell sharply at the New York open....
...US Bancorp has entered into a two-year deferred prosecution agreement with the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, which fined it $453m....
...The addition of Ms McWilliams, chief legal officer at Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, would be consistent with this trend....
...between Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincinnati and Chicago’s MB Financial....
...The loonie’s 13 per cent rise against the dollar over the summer was driven by Bank of Canada hawkishness and rate rises....
...Earnings are due from Coca-Cola, Qualcomm, US Bancorp and American Express....
...The deal, between M&T Bank of New York and Hudson City Bancorp of New Jersey, was approved on Wednesday by the Federal Reserve, following a series of setbacks over compliance concerns since the tie-up was...
...Cuba had been the last foreign government served by New York-based M & T, which is still awaiting regulatory clearance to merge with Hudson City Bancorp of New Jersey....
...Louisiana-based MidSouth Bancorp declined 5.2 per cent while Dallas, Texas-based ViewPoint Financial fell as much as 7.45 per cent....
...Other bank deals have been on hold. M&T Bank’s deal to acquire Hudson City Bancorp has been on ice for almost two years as regulators criticised M&T’s anti-money laundering procedures....
...month, but the World Bank has a decidedly less rosy view...
...The OCC, the main regulator for JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, suggested the move as way to improve its governance (Wall Street Journal). Dagong downgraded its rating for the United States, to A- from A....
...“The most immediate impact we’re seeing from the government default risk is an inflow of deposits,” said Andy Cecere, chief financial officer of US Bancorp, the sixth-biggest US bank by assets....
...David Bianco, US equity strategist at Deutsche Bank, added that he thought the sequestration might keep Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, from ending its policy of quantitative easing....
...industrial output Brazil trade balance Earnings Citigroup, FY Tuesday, April 16 New Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to address houses of parliament IMF head Christine Lagarde speaks ahead of IMF/World Bank...
...Now there is evidence to suggest a strong correlation between bullion prices and Chinese inflation, according to Na Liu, head of CNC Asset Management....
...reserve shift Toasting central bankers is not a popular pastime, but Poles and Mexicans have good reason to offer them a warm Na zdrowie and salud....
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