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    UBS eyes US growth with wealth business

    As the Credit Suisse-UBS deal reaches its one-year mark, UBS seeks to expand its wealth business in the U.S. through M&A activities in the next three to four years, Chairman Colm Kelleher said Sunday.

    By March 18, 2024
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    Goldman’s Cohen heads for exit as GreenSky deal closes

    GreenSky is now owned by an investor group led by Sixth Street. Stephanie Cohen, Goldman’s global head of platform solutions, is leaving the bank for IT firm Cloudflare.

    By March 18, 2024
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    Trendline

    Top 5 stories from Banking Dive

    Everything old is new again. One year after Citi’s reorganization, progress comes in “fits and starts.” Meanwhile, a contentious proposed rule is generating “voluminous” feedback after 14 months.

    By Banking Dive staff
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    Huntington hires JPMorgan vet as next HR chief

    Sarah Pohmer, who’s spent nearly 25 years at JPMorgan, has been named the next human resources chief at the Columbus, Ohio-based bank.

    By March 18, 2024
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    JPMorgan Chase fined $348.2M over gaps in trade data reporting

    The bank “failed to surveil billions of instances of trading activity on at least 30 global trading venues,” the OCC alleged. “These gaps and deficiencies … constitute unsafe or unsound banking practices.”

    By March 14, 2024
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    UK’s Metro Bank eyes £30M more in cost savings by year’s end

    The bank expects to lay off additional employees — it has cut 1,000 since October — and it will abandon its seven-day-a-week branch model.

    By March 14, 2024
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    TD cuts CEO Masrani’s pay by $741K over botched deal, AML woes

    Four of the five big-bank CEOs in Canada saw their compensation drop in 2023 — a reverse of the pay trend in the U.S., where only Bank of America's Brian Moynihan was paid less than in 2022.

    By March 13, 2024
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    Starling taps HSBC alum as next CEO

    The digital bank's founder, Anne Boden, said she believes Raman Bhatia can move Starling “into its next phase of growth while cherishing the culture and values” her team had worked hard to create.

    By March 13, 2024
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    Goldman aims to grow its private credit portfolio to $300B: report

    The bank’s footprint there already far exceeds its rivals. Goldman, in a year, also nearly cut in half a $30 billion cache of legacy investments.

    By March 12, 2024
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    BNY Mellon digital chief to depart in April

    The bank did not identify Roman Regelman’s successor in its securities filing. His departure is set for April 15.

    By March 11, 2024
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    JPMorgan to launch biometric checkout next year

    The bank’s payments unit plans to engage in more pilots this year before rolling out the checkout service broadly next year, said Prashant Sharma, JPMorgan’s executive director of biometrics and identity solutions.

    By March 11, 2024
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    Otting could make $5.75M in first year as NYCB CEO

    Alessandro DiNello will receive a base salary of $500,000 per month for his work as NYCB's executive chair, the bank said in a filing. He'll return to a nonexecutive role April 1.

    By March 11, 2024
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    Regional bank execs push back on CRE risk fears

    The banking sector relearns every 15 years not to overly concentrate its balance sheet in one area, Fifth Third CEO Tim Spence said. Meanwhile, Citizens Bank expects its CRE loan losses to peak at the end of this year.

    By March 11, 2024
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    Huntington dives deeper into Texas

    Local banking industry veteran Clint Bryant will lead Huntington’s Texas commercial charge, starting with Dallas.

    By March 8, 2024
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    OCC clears U.S. Bank from MUFG Union consent order

    The enforcement action, for failing to meet federal IT security guidelines, was issued just one day before U.S. Bank announced its $8 billion acquisition of MUFG Union.

    By March 8, 2024
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    Deep Dive

    A year after SVB, what’s improved and what needs work?

    Banking Dive looks at six factors — from upcoming regulations to commercial real estate — to see how the landscape has changed between the crises of 2023 and 2024.

    By March 8, 2024
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    NYCB names ex-OCC chief Otting as CEO

    Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will take a seat on the bank's board after his Liberty Strategic Capital and other investors infused NYCB with $1.05 billion.

    By March 7, 2024
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    Citi hires BofA vet Plaus to lead North America private bank

    Don Plaus had announced his retirement from BofA's Merrill Lynch a year ago but had to delay his plans when Andy Sieg announced he was leaving. Plaus' hire reunites the two at Citi.

    By March 7, 2024
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    Powell predicts CRE woes will hit smaller banks hardest

    The Federal Reserve, bankers and commercial real estate executives have warned of turbulence as property owners struggle to refinance debt at higher rates.

    By Jim Tyson • March 7, 2024
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    How banks, fintechs can navigate regulatory challenges in BaaS space

    Banks have a responsibility to treat their customers fairly because they deal with people’s money, said the CEO of Synctera, a partner of Lineage Bank, which was recently hit with an FDIC consent order over BaaS.

    By March 6, 2024
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    U.S. Bank mandates 3 days a week in the office

    This marks a shift in policy from optional, a year and a half after CEO Andy Cecere told employees their presence was preferred.

    By March 6, 2024
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    Dive Deposits: TD gives its AML woes long-haul messaging

    The bank's First Horizon stumble is as woven into its fabric as the Revlon error is for Citi, or the fake-accounts scandal is for Wells Fargo, if one looks at TD's responses to analysts.

    By March 6, 2024
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    Truist taps Citi muni veterans to strengthen its team

    The move comes as Citi prepares to leave the municipal bond market by the end of this month to focus its attention on increasing profit amid its company-wide reorganization.

    By March 4, 2024
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    Santander cuts roughly 320 US jobs: reports

    Many of the layoffs are centered on the bank’s retail operations, ahead of the expected launch of a fully digital platform in the U.S. this summer.

    By March 4, 2024
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    West Virginia warns Citi, TD, others over fossil-fuel stances

    BMO, HSBC, Fifth Third and Northern Trust also received notices that the state would add them to a restricted financial institution list over alleged "boycotts."

    By Lamar Johnson • March 1, 2024
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    Investors back out of $35M deal with Republic First

    The bank failed to meet the terms of their agreement by the deadline, Norcross-Braca Group said. The bank said it remains adequately capitalized.

    By March 1, 2024