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U.S. Banker May 2011 John Engen	You Can Go Home Again John Kanas pulled off a stunning turnaround. But as it turns out, he s just getting started. The longtime New York banker intends to bring BankUnited to his hometown.
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 John Engen	Eat or Be Eaten Banks that have strong balance sheets, excellent credit quality and first-rate regulatory compliance skills will thrive in today's challenging operating environment. Banks that lack those characteristics may be forced to sell out.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Deborah Scally	Outlook for M&A: 2009 Interestingly, for some banks, M&A will be a viable -- even attractive -- strategic option.
BusinessWeek June 4, 2009 Peter Carbonara	Private Equity Moves In on Banks With hundreds of banks in desperate need of cash, regulators are allowing deals with firms that rewrite the rules of ownership.
U.S. Banker February 2010 John Engen	Florida's Long Road to Recovery The Sunshine State was battered by the real estate bust, causing a wave of bank failures. The upheaval is reshaping the banking landscape as more regionals move in, but they ll need patience because conditions are likely to get worse before they get better.
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Milligan	In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry.
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Charles Keenan	Who Says Banks Can't Grow Revenues? Banks looking to generate revenues must recognize that things are now different than before the recession.
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2009 Jim Freer	Capital Management: Banking's Trickiest Juggling Act More than ever, directors are keeping their eyes fixed on the balance sheet, in an effort to reach perfect harmony between regulatory soundness and profitability.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen	Fear of the Unknown Receiving government funding right now is a little akin to the devil you don't know.
U.S. Banker October 2008 John Engen	Got Deposits? The implications of the present shakeout won't be fully understood for years, but it seems clear that the competition for deposits will be more intense in the years ahead.
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen	Tough as Nails Lockport, New York-based First Niagara Financial Corp. keeps hammering out high performance in good times and bad.
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 John R. Engen	Welcome to the Great Unknown The ink is dry on Dodd-Frank, and now bank executives and board members are cracking open the 2,300-page rulebook to try to discern what it all means for the industry going forward.
U.S. Banker August 2008 Michael Sisk	Banking's Private Equity Conundrum Despite the gnashing of teeth among regulators that private equity shops are secretive and will wreak havoc if let loose on the banking industry, it's a bit ironic how opaque the regulatory process itself is.
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2009 John R. Engen	Sidhu's View The impending recession is bound to make 2009 a year that will test the mettle of all financial institution boards. Even so, says banking iconoclast Jay Sidhu, there's opportunity ahead.
U.S. Banker August 2009 John Engen	How Banking Will Change A few years from now, just how much will the crisis have changed the environment banks compete in, and the way they go about their business?
U.S. Banker January 2006 John Engen	Fabulous on the Fundamentals The first three quarters of 2005 were the most profitable in banking history, with record earnings of $102 billion. But already in 2006, analysts see signs of change in the overall approach bankers take to the business.
U.S. Banker September 2008 John Engen	Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here?
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2011 Jack Milligan	Cautious Optimism: Returns to Bank M&A A gradual improvement in asset quality industry wide, along with unprecedented pressure from regulators, is helping to revive the bank M&A market after three lean years -- although prices might never return to their lofty highs of past cycles.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 Ben Johnson	Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns.
CFO March 1, 2007 Rob Garver	Nothing to Bank On Bank executives will undoubtedly spend much of the next year assessing the likelihood and impact of new rules, while at the same time trying to keep earnings growth on its upward trend.
U.S. Banker August 2008 John Engen	The Other Shoe... A commercial real estate fallout promises to be far more devastating than the subprime crisis, because this market is so much more pervasive - a linchpin business for so many institutions, including most community banks.
U.S. Banker March 2010 Joe Adler	Get Ready for Rising Rates Near-zero interest rates won't last forever, and regulators are warning banks -- particularly those that added long-term assets using short-term funds -- to take steps to manage their risk.
U.S. Banker September 2008 John Adams	Time for PE Class PE raises thorny regulatory issues about how much control a non-regulated PE firm can have over a regulated bank-issues that PE firms, regulators and banks have yet to sort out.
CFO April 1, 2011 Vincent Ryan	The Big Fail Despite the reach of Dodd-Frank, the "too-big-to-fail" bank dilemma lives on.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Deborah Scally	Toughing It Out in 2009 The results of the Bank Director/Grant Thornton LLP 16th Bank Executive Survey show that bankers are determined to shore up their foundations and capitalize on strengths to survive the year ahead.
U.S. Banker December 2008 John Engen	When Boom Goes Bust The subprime crisis, credit squeeze, housing slump and resulting economic fallout has played out with particular vigor in Las Vegas.
CFO March 1, 2010 Ryan & Leone	Brighter Days Bank CFOs describe how they've weathered the storm, dealt with TARP, and learned many invaluable lessons.
U.S. Banker May 2009 Michael Sisk	The Repercussions of Reform After months of Congressional hearings, debates and some hysterics, only the broadest outlines of the new banking regulatory regime have emerged.
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 TK Kerstetter	A Tribute to Bill Seidman Bank Director honors its late publisher, supporter, and friend, Bill Seidman, who passed away this year.
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 Nikolaj Gammeltoft	A New Banking Bet for Billionaire Gerald Ford The veteran of the savings and loan crisis picks up Pacific Capital.
U.S. Banker March 2008 John Engen	The Politics of Lending Sen. John McCain took time to present his vision of a world with simplified mortgage applications, and even suggested that the government might need to jump in to help mitigate the worsening crisis.
CFO March 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan	The Big Freeze CFOs hope government intervention will soon thaw frozen credit markets. That's not likely.
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 John R. Engen	Back in the Saddle Former FDIC chairman Bill Isaac has taken the reins as the new chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp. Here, he talks about his career, growing the bank, and why, in his view, Dodd-Frank is an unmitigated disaster.
BusinessWeek June 11, 2009 Theo Francis	Banks: Good News--and Bad Assets Despite a comeback on Wall Street, the heaps of toxic debt aren't going anywhere. Be warned: Banking losses will be playing out for years
U.S. Banker February 2010 Rob Garver	What Now? If Washington really wants to get credit flowing to small businesses, it could modify TARP, relax capital requirements and rethink its stance on industrial loan companies. Or it could do nothing at all.
U.S. Banker April 2002 Robert A. Bennett	Unfairly Treated? Is there regulatory discrimination against smaller banks and thrifts? That question is raised by how the OTS treated the $851 million-asset Progress Financial Corp. Badly chastised, management of the Philadelphia-area company is rethinking a number of key issues...
U.S. Banker January 2007	The Opportunists The banking industry turned in another round of record profits in 2006, but you wouldn't know it by listening to bankers.
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2010 Jonathan Joseph	Return of the Fortress Balance Sheet Since traditional noncumulative perpetual preferred stock is treated as Tier 1 capital, it should be considered to improve capital strength.
U.S. Banker January 2008 Engen et al.	All-Star Banking Team 2008 Richard Davis, new CEO of U.S. Bancorp, won plaudits from shareholders for his transparent handling of the bank's subprime situation, and landed him and the bank on U.S. Banker's annual All-Star Banking Team.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Andrew Dubinsky	Electronic Lending Could Help Avert Another Crisis If regulators had the tools in place to effectively view complex debt instruments and the links between the financial institutions that securitize, hold, and insure them this crisis may not have happened.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2010 Deborah Scally	2010: A Game-Changing Year for Bank M&A A notable panel of M&A experts says 2010 will witness many changes in the banking landscape - among them, congressional reform, an uptick in private equity, and more consolidation.
The Motley Fool September 1, 2011 Shubh Datta	1 Regional Bank Shareholders Will Like First Horizon posted strong earnings on the back of falling provisions for bad loans.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Glen Fest	Bidder Medicine While its house was burning down, BankUnited of Coral Gables, Fla., was on a deposit-gathering spree.
U.S. Banker May 2008 Holly Sraeel et al.	Playing Both Ends Against the Middle There are plenty of mid-tier banks and thrifts posting respectable performances.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 Alex Dumortier	US Bancorp's Double Opportunity Strong banks can take market share in a crisis and US Bancorp appears to be doing just that.
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011	FDIC Lawsuit Targets Directors at Failed Banks and Thrifts; TARP'S Uncertain Legacy In a complaint filed in November of last year, the agency is seeking at least $20 million from 11 executives and directors, including five outsiders.
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2009 Paul Sweeney	The 2008 Bank Performance Scorecard: America's Top 150 Banks There is not much flash and glitz among this year's crop of top performers. But given all that's occurred in the last six months, maybe slow and steady should be the name of the game.
U.S. Banker August 2009 Alan Kline	Abolishing the OTS Could Raise Capital Concerns A case could be made that eliminating the Office of Thrift Supervision might spook investors and, in turn, limit the institutions capital-raising options.