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Byline: Kristin Broughton Profits rose at Citizens Financial Group as commercial loan growth accelerated and the Providence, R.I., company continued to reap the benefits of higher interest rates and lower [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Fifth Third Bancorp is dusting off an old plan. During a conference call Thursday to discuss second-quarter earnings, Fifth Third announced plans to open 100 to 125 [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Profits at Fifth Third Bancorp rose during the second quarter as the company benefited from higher interest rates, lower taxes and a one-time gain. However, fee income [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Everyone wants wants to launch a digital bank these days, it seems. Over the past year, U.S. Bancorp has talked up its plans to expand its retail [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Enjoy the good times while they last. Big banks kicked off second-quarter earnings season on Friday by generally reporting stronger profits from a year earlier, boosted by [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Is this the beginning of the long-awaited comeback in commercial lending? Though complete second-quarter numbers aren't in yet from the Federal Reserve, and banks don't start announcing [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Fifth Third Bancorp expects to earn an additional $200 million in pretax profits this quarter after selling off a portion of its stake in the payments processor [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton The recent string of positive news for the banking industry, from lower corporate taxes to less regulation, is starting to feel like a distant memory. After rising [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton You could easily mistake Anne Leland Clark, a Twin Cities nonprofit executive, for a banker with with big, national ambitions as she discusses her organization's digital platform [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton JPMorgan Chase's new health care venture, launched in January in partnership with Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway, has its first CEO. Dr. Atul Gawande will take the helm [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton As state attorneys general take on a more muscular role in financial policy, enforcing consumer protection laws amid the deregulatory wave in Washington, they may soon add [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Elizabeth 'Betsy' Duke, board chair of the scandal-plagued Wells Fargo, said Monday that 'siloing' and sheer size are the biggest threats to a company's culture. Speaking at [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton As Bank of America embarks on a big retail expansion, it is making the hiring of front-line bankers from low-income communities a priority. Like several big banks, [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton As Bank of America gets its 500 new branches up and running across country, cross-selling retail customers new services -- particularly asset management -- will be a [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton The news that Santander Consumer USA Holdings may soon sever its close ties with a major carmaker has raised more questions than answers about the auto lender's [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I., is partnering with IBM to develop a virtual career coach for its employees. Chairman and CEO Bruce Van Saun discussed the [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton The stars have unquestionably aligned for the nation's biggest banks, which have benefited in recent months from corporate tax cuts and efforts to loosen post-crisis rules. But [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan offered new details Thursday about what happened when commercial banking employees falsified customer data on an important regulatory form. But big questions [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Customers at Citizens Financial Group were prevented on Wednesday from accessing their online and mobile accounts, in what the company has described as an issue with its [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton CIT Group in New York has a new chief risk officer. The $40 billion-asset CIT on Friday named Wahida Plummer to the post, effective immediately. Plummer joined [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton 'Yeah,' several women bankers in the room said in unison. That audible chorus made it clear Barclays' Barbara Byrne was on to something. 'Some women are harder [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Wells Fargo once again has been rocked by revelations of inadequate risk controls, and the situation is rekindling questions about whether its management is in full command. [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton You could have easily mistaken JPMorgan Chase's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday for the type of testy town hall gathering that lawmakers hold with their constituents when [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton First Financial Northwest in Renton, Wash., plans to raise as much as $75 million through the sale of various securities. The $1.2 billion-asset company on Friday filed [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Household debt is higher than ever, and delinquencies in credit cards and unsecured personal loans are edging upward. Bruce Van Saun, chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial, [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton In a dimly lit wing of the American Natural History Museum in Manhattan, the museum's iconic female blue whale -- a 21-foot-long, 94,000-pound, fiberglass model -- hovered, [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton For the second time in the past year, Wells Fargo has launched an advertising campaign aimed at improving its tarnished image. The embattled company on Monday announced [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Two longtime executives at U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis on Friday announced their retirements, giving Chairman and CEO Andy Cecere a new opportunity to reshape his executive team. [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton When Fifth Third Bancorp launched a new marketing campaign last year, designed to poke fun of the fraction (5/3) in its name, executives decided to connect with [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Something has been missed in all the fuss about big banks' deposit juggernauts: Some regionals have carved out a surprising edge when it comes to interest-free checking [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Fifth Third Bancorp has set in motion its succession plan for Chief Legal Officer Jelena McWilliams, who is the Trump administration's choice for chair of the Federal [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Santander Bank in Boston has regained its passing Community Reinvestment Act grade, allowing the bank to once again open new branches and accept public deposits. The $74.5 [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Shortly after Greg Carmichael took over as CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp in late 2015, he set a goal of better preparing the Cincinnati company for the [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Fifth Third Bancorp's quarterly results are hard to get a bead on these days as it juggles long-term and short-term priorities. Commercial construction lending rose 17% year [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton TCF Financial reported higher profits in the first quarter, as a ramp-up in equipment and inventory financing, as well as a wider margin, helped the Wayzata, Minn., [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Bankers can only hope their favorite tonic for the commercial lending slowdown -- the retail lending renaissance -- keeps its fizz for just a little while longer. [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Gains from consumer lending and a wider margin outweighed a dip in fee income at Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I. The $153.5 billion-asset company said it [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton U.S. Bancorp, like a lot of banks, needs all the help it can get when it comes to fee income. Revenue from its payments business -- a [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis reported a double-digit increase in quarterly profits, as a mix of higher interest income and lower taxes offset lackluster growth in the company's [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Regional banks appear to have taken a hit in the opening round of the industrywide battle to gather deposits. Over the past few days, midsize banks -- [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Comerica in Dallas reported a double-digit increase in profits, as the benefit of recent interest rate hikes and ongoing expense cuts outweighed weakness in the company's loan [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Green Dot is teaming up with a fintech firm to court millennials, part of its growing list of partnerships that are contributing to its turnaround. Under an [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Last fall, Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico, knocking out power and damaging roads. It also unexpectedly forced Popular, the island's biggest bank, to accelerate plans [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Santander Consumer USA Holdings in Dallas has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle charges from California's financial regulator that it violated consumer disclosure laws. According to a [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Jamie Dimon on Thursday published his annual letter to shareholders, setting the industry abuzz with his comments on big economic issues, such as interest rates, immigration and [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton For years, bankers have said that they would happily return more capital to shareholders if only the Federal Reserve would let them. But a number of regionals [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Among the chief executives of major banking companies in this country, Steve Cummings is a curious example. He is in charge of MUFG's operations across the Americas, [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton After scaling back on lending to small businesses after the financial crisis, megabanks are making big moves to win their business back. Bank of America on Monday [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton A month after the mass shooting at a high school in Florida, and days before a national march against gun violence, Citigroup became the first big bank [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton It's no secret that bank CEOs are paid handsomely. But how their compensation stacks up against workers further down the corporate ladder has been a mystery for [...]