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Seeking a leadership role in defining biometric identification law, the California Bankers Association is backing a bill to deter high-tech identity theft. The association joined with the Los Angeles-based Center [...]

Private networks with dial-up home banking services are not being written off by banks even though the Internet and the World Wide Web seem to be threats to this form of service. However, according to a study by Meridien Research Inc of Needham, MA, between 20% and 30% of the 2.3 mil in the US who bank from home do so on the Internet. A majority of the customers of 400,000 Wells Fargo Bank PC customers now use the Web for bank services., The Internet has threatened to engulf and overwhelm the old-style dial- up methods of home banking, but private networks are not being written off quite yet. Even as an increasing [...]

As college costs inch up to all-time highs that would make Oprah Winfrey wince, you may think: 'Is college really necessary? Why not drop this college thing altogether and put [...]

Roslyn Bancorp came under heavy fire last May when it decided to purchase its nearly identical twin, T.R. Financial Corp. Many thrifts merge with commercial banks in a struggle to [...]

Like many neighborhood organizations, Urban America aims to invest money in low- and moderate-income communities in New York and around the country. But the year-old real estate investment fund is [...]

One year after the merger of Citibank and Travelers Group, the new Citigroup is undertaking a dramatic shift in strategy at its bank branches, which are being transformed into high-volume [...]

As the holiday shopping frenzy kicks in, several financial institutions want to grab a larger piece of Internet shopping and its lucrative transaction processing fees. Their strategy: make consumers feel [...]

City Council Speaker Peter Vallone's plan to ban automated teller machine fees could bring a dramatic halt to banks' expansion in New York City. If the proposed legislation passes, banks [...]

William J. Egan made his mark advising the insurance industry by taking the long view. The corporate lawyer turned investment banker believes in winning over clients by being their partner, [...]

Darlys Cruz needed a $3,000 loan to expand her Washington Heights child care center. She approached two local banks, but they turned her down, either because she didn't have a [...]

After only six months in operation, the controversial Pathmark in East Harlem is living up to expectations -- both good and bad. The first major supermarket to open in the [...]

New York state legislators are looking at ways to restrict the ability of financial conglomerates to share customer information. State lawmakers are worried that the sweeping federal banking reform bill, [...]

When National Westminster Bancorp wanted to buy a New Jersey bank in 1994, community activist Matthew Lee saw an opportunity. He threatened to challenge the merger on the grounds that [...]

William J. Egan made his mark advising the insurance industry by taking the long view. The corporate lawyer turned investment banker believes in winning over clients by being their partner, [...]

Chase Manhattan Bank, the city's top lender to small businesses, is launching an ambitious effort to expand its services to entrepreneurs via the Internet. To become a major national player, [...]

A year ago, investment bankers specializing in banks and thrifts were awash in deals, their revenues and profits boosted by scores of mergers and initial public offerings. This year, however, [...]

A year ago, the three New York investment bankers that specialize in banks and thrifts were awash in deals, with their revenues and profits boosted by scores of mergers and [...]

As Dennis G. Buchert rose up the ranks to become head of corporate banking at Marine Midland Bank, he developed firm ideas about how he would run a thriving financial [...]

Chase Manhattan Corp. hopes that its purchase of investment banking boutique Hambrecht & Quist Group will lure the upstart technology companies of the 'new economy' to its door for their [...]

The planning of 'The American Century' may have predated Director Maxwell L. Anderson's arrival at the Whitney Museum of American Art last year, but the promotion of the popular two-part [...]

Fleet Bank, which has established itself as a strong force in middle-market lending, is now going after small businesses. The bank is bolstering its lending staff, realigning incentive programs and [...]

A year after embarking on a diversification strategy, GreenPoint Bank is running into trouble. The third-largest New York area thrift is expected to fall short of analysts' earnings estimates for [...]

Top shareholders of Dime Bancorp are trying to derail the thrift's proposed merger with Hudson United Bancorp and are searching for another suitor that will pay a premium to acquire [...]

Like the biggest names on Wall Street, Chase Manhattan Bank is using splashy ads to tell the world it is an investment banking powerhouse. One recent ad heralded the bank's [...]

Making a move from Wall Street to a hospital system might seem unusual, but Stuart I. Sugarman sees a strong connection. He says the health care industry is showing many [...]

Frustrated by Haven Bancorp's poorly performing supermarket branch strategy, shareholders are determined to force the sale of the Westbury, L.I.-based thrift. The owners of PL Capital, which controls 5.3% of [...]

Reliance Federal Savings Bank is the next area financial institution likely to be sold as a flurry of acquisitions in the coming months reshapes the banking scene. A yearlong hiatus [...]

Steeped in medicine from an early age, Meg Walsh always knew she wanted a career in health care. But instead of tending to patients directly -- like her mom, a [...]

Nationwide, entrepreneurs have established hundreds of new banks in recent years, hoping to provide the kind of local touch lost in the industry's wave of consolidations. In New Jersey alone, [...]

Susan Weber has spent 20 years studying customer shopping patterns at her six Weber's Closeout Centers. When the Manhattan discount chain launched its first Web site in April, Ms. Weber [...]

As the ranks of the newly wealthy surge with the booming economy, several banks are appealing to their customers' artistic sides. UBS and Deutsche Bank are launching art advisory services [...]

When the co-op board members at Glen Oaks Village wanted to refinance their Queens building's mortgage, they picked a bank that would pay them money. A year after taking out [...]

State and federal regulators are worried that some of New York's most reputable banks, including Chase Manhattan and Citigroup, are getting dangerously close to the shadowy world of predatory home [...]

It must be hot if even the ice cream man is seeing his profits melt away. Ciao Bella Gelato Co., which supplies sorbet and ice cream to 700 restaurants in [...]

For more than a decade, the lot stood overgrown and neglected on the corner of Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. In the last few [...]

Deborah Wright is pinning the revitalization of Carver Federal Savings Bank on the economic boom in Harlem. As the troubled institution's new chief executive, Ms. Wright intends to capture a [...]

After five years of snapping up its peers, Astoria Financial Corp. has finally claimed the title of largest thrift in the New York area. But Astoria hasn't translated that size [...]

To kick off its first branding campaign, Astoria Federal Savings & Loan Association had to learn what customers thought about the fast-growing bank. Interviews revealed that account holders, many of [...]

Reliance group holdings Inc. has spent this decade building its insurance operations. Though many of its peers succumbed to a vicious pricing war, the company seemed to rise above the [...]

Henry R. Silverman, chief executive of Cendant Corp., is a very fortunate man. Though his company's admission of accounting fraud sent its stock down 42% in 1998, Mr. Silverman finished [...]

Now that it has sold its factoring and asset-based lending arm, the pressure is mounting on The Bank of New York Co. to decide the fate of its large branch [...]

Unlike many of her peers, Falguni Shah has never worried about getting a summer job. The 20-year-old senior majoring in computer information systems at Bernard M. Baruch College spent last [...]