Banking on Christopher & Banks?
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Management keeps growing and buying back shares even as the retailer struggles.
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Once upon a time, there were two building societies. The Halifax and the Abbey National dominated the mortgage business, with half the market between them, while the banks confined themselves to current ...
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U.S. and European banks including Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co has emerged as the latest potential suitor for UK investment bank Cazenove, but as a joint-venture partner rather than an outright purchaser.
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The flurry of activity  between Hollywood and Wall Street shows no sign of abating. New  Line Cinema is the latest to get into the game with the  announcement Wednesday of a $350 million film financing  arrangement with the Royal Bank of Scotland -- a longtime  banking partner of the Time Warner subsidiary.
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Business & money: Building society damaged by the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US and other one-off charges
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It turns out that you and your banker are not on the same page.
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By Christopher Faille, Financial Correspondent
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By Elwin Green, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 4--This week's scam may be inoperative by the time you read this,  but on the Internet, one never knows.   The senders of the e-mail pose as BB&T Co., the Raleigh-Durham,  N.C.-based bank.
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They greet customers with Starbucks coffee, obsess over the exact placement of their teller counters, and monitor customers' reactions to their every move. As banks become more customer focused, they are increasingly looking to retailers for ideas of how to build a better bank branch. After years of ignoring branches during the dot-com boom, banks now are giving them more ...
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Reposted in the queue as it's impossible or at least very complicated to move it as I asked (although the post where aphrael said such thing disappeared so perhaps this is not the case after all - another minor K5 mystery).  The original discussion can be found here (read it as there are some clarifications by rusty). All right, here is the (adapted) diary. Rusty posted a comment in the diary entitled "Would you pay 10USD for K5 Life Membership?" saying that K5 will become a pay site once new user registrations will be reactivated: "I was thinking $5.00 (none / 0) (#18) by rusty on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 04:42:15 PM CET But it would actually be charged. That plus a hash of the identifying CC info so you only get one account ever, and I think we'd either shrivel up to nothing and die, or solve the spamming and crapflooding issues. Funny that someone else is thinking about this right now. It'll probably happen before I turn new signups back on." This of course begs the question: HIBT? If so I'll bite (see some considerations under the fold).
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One of the largest financial institutions in Texas has drawn the attention of a New York banking giant. Bryan-based First American Bank SSB will be acquired by New York-based Citigroup Inc.
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Prudential waves goodbye to double yolker Prudential PLC, the British financial services company, is to sell its loss making internet banking unit Egg to Citigroup for Â£575m ($1.127bn) cash.â¦
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Why pay more than you need to -- to your bank, of all things?
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UK bank HBOS has decided not to make a bid for Abbey, the bank has said. Many observers had expected HBOS to make a play for Abbey, which had agreed to a Â£8.
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Business & money: City gripped by speculation that a major high street bank has been forced to borrow Â£1.6bn from the Bank of England to see it through a cash-flow problem.
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Is a re-emphasis on commercial banking paying enough dividends at KeyCorp?