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Hertz targeting Regions building for apartments

Ted Carter — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:26:24 +0000

Downtown Jackson’s Regions building has borne many names in its nearly 85 years, but the 18-floor historic landmark may soon be called “home” for renters eager to live downtown. Developers for several years have eyed the circa 1928 office building for conversion to residential apartments. The challenges of lining up financing and securing the requisite [...]

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Regions chooses Jones

MBJ Staff — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:05:50 +0000

Brad K. Jones has been named vice president and manager of Region’s Main Office branch in Starkville. He will be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with individual consumer and small business clientele. A banking industry veteran with more than five years of experience, Jones most recently served as a branch manager for Amegy Bank [...]

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What next for banks after failed debit fee experiment?

Ted Carter — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:00:13 +0000

Dead in a near blink of an eye. That’s how history will chronicle the big idea banks had for ginning up revenue through a monthly fee to customers for debit-card transactions. Perhaps you can blame awful timing. Parks in cities across the nation began filling up with protests against Wall Street and the banking system [...]

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Regions sets debit card fees

Ted Carter — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:05:22 +0000

In a soon-to-arrive consequence of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Regions Bank in mid-October will begin charging customers in Mississippi and elsewhere a $4 monthly fee for debit card use. The financial services sector has been predicting for the past year that Dodd Frank’s mandated cut in swipe card fees [...]

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Regions: $300M in new legal losses is not likely

Ted Carter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:00:16 +0000

Birmingham-based Regions Financial Corp. says it could incur legal losses of up to $300 million on top of the $210 million it paid to settle fraud claims against investment brokerage subsidiary Morgan Keegan by Mississippi and other Southeastern states. In its second quarter 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission earlier this month, [...]

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