Blue Chip Senior Executives Join 1st Reverse Mortgage USA

Two ‘Blue Chip’ senior executives have joined the management team of 1st Reverse Mortgage USA®, a division of Cherry Creek Mortgage Company. David Brindley will serve as manager of the Correspondent Lending Group, and Debbie Turner, as Chief Operations Officer of the reverse mortgage division. “A blue chip is a stock in a corporation with a national reputation for [...]

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Reappoints Chairman for 2012

Douglas W. Shorenstein The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System named Douglas W. Shorenstein as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Patricia E. Yarrington as deputy chair effective January 1, 2012. Shorenstein used to be chairman and CEO of San Francisco based Shorenstein Properties, one of the country’s [...]

Top Tips To Improve Your Personal Finances in 2012

For so many people personal finance is a mystery that seems impossible to figure out. The average American will make about one million dollars in a lifetime, but will still retire with only a small fraction of that money available. This article will share useful tips to show you how to make your money last [...]

Mercator Group Conceives New Strategies for Consumer Prepaid Card Distribution

Research Shows Closed-Loop Prepaid Program Managers Drive Volume and Program Profitability Prepaid card program managers of Mercator have made distribution their top priority. Mercator Advisory Group’s Consumer Prepaid Distribution Strategies examines the methods available to prepaid card program managers as they seek out new outlets and markets The report focuses on how closed-loop gift card business approaches [...]

Cycles Expert Charles Nenner Forecasts

In a recent radio interview, cycles expert Charless Nenner offered some bold forecasts for the immediate future: – gold cycles are bottoming, and we might see a rise to $2120 per ounce, but not much more – expect a low in the US Dollar in March and April of 2012, after which we will see a multi-year [...]

U.S. Bank launches online Auto Buying Service

Auto buyers banking with U.S. Bank can now easily shop for a car with the recent launch of its online auto financing service. The U.S. Bank Auto Buying Service (www.usbank.com/autobuying) gives access to a virtual one-stop shop where shoppers finding their preferred car, preferred pricing range, and preferred choice of payment plan is a click [...]

Consumers 1, Banks 0, In Battle Over $5 debit card fee

Bank of America consumers are the winners in the battle over the $5 monthly fee for using debit cards. Bank of America co-chief operating officer David Darnell announced foregoing the monthly debit card fees November 1 after irate consumer Molly Katchpole of Washington, DC started an online petition calling for the bank to cease its [...]

Some Banks Start Debit Card Fees

After conditioning consumers to use their debit cards for the past few years, some banks have a nasty surprise in store for us all. Some banks are waiting to see the fallout, but others have already jumped in. You may not know it, but your bank may be charging you a monthly fee for using [...]

SBA Offers Disaster Loans in South Carolina

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is offering Federal economic injury and disaster loans for small-scale enterprises, agricultural cooperatives and business outfits engaged in aquaculture and private non-profit organizations located in South Carolina. The move by the SBA is a result of the drought and excessive heat that hit the state last April. Some 44 [...]

Citibank – There’s An App For That

Online banking with Citibank is now accessible in your own iPad. The recent launching of Citibank for iPad has raised the benchmark for online banking with fast, reliable, and secured way of tracking and analyzing your finances. With Citibank for iPad, gone are the days of the old-fashioned style of ledger banking. In this first-ever [...]

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