by Ted Carter Published: February 19,2012
Tags: Ally/GMAC, Bank of America, Chase, Citi, Jan Schaefer, Jim Hood, Mississippi, Mississippi Banking Commission, Mississippi Business Journal, Nationalforeclosuresettlement.com, Theresa Brady, Wells Fargo
About 4,235 Mississippi homebuyers whose homes were foreclosed on may be eligible for cash payments under a national settlement reached with five giant banks for fraudulent foreclosure practices, Attorney General Jim Hood’s office said. The national foreclosure fraud settlement provides an estimated $47.1 million in direct relief to Mississippi homeowners and addresses future mortgage loan [...] [...]

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 [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: September 25,2011
Tags: Bank of America, banking, Citigroup, Citizens Financial Group Inc., Huntington Bancshares Inc., Joe Biden, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Karen Mills, Key Corp, M&T Bank Corp., Merrill Lynch, PNC Bank NA., Regions Bank, Small Business Administration, Sun Trust Banks Inc, TD Bank, US Bank, Wells Fargo
Regions Bank, Wells Fargo and 11 other large banks have committed to increase lending for small businesses by a combined $20 billion over the next three years. The banks made the announcement at a press conference joined by Vice President Joe Biden and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills John Asbury, head of Business Services [...] [...]
Wells Fargo senior economist Scott Anderson delivers remarks to the 2010 Thad Cochran Forum on American Enterprise in Jackson. [...]

Wells Fargo made its name in the Old West with daring stagecoach ventures through a treacherous frontier. In Mississippi, the San Francisco-based banking giant hopes to build a reputation as a key lender to business, especially in agriculture, said Fred Osing, Wells Fargo business banking manager for Mississippi. Wachovia, whose Mississippi operations converted officially to [...] [...]