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Shahien Nasiripour

Banks Get Small Win On Accounting Standards

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Aba, Fasb, Lynn Turner, Bankers, Facebook, Ed Perlmutter, Banks, Financial Crisis, Sec, Chamber of Commerce, Systemic Risk, Accounting, American Bankers Association, Business News

A House panel approved a provision Thursday that calls for a new oversight body dominated by bank regulators to advise on accounting rules for banks, ...

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Ryan Grim

Moneyed Interests Lining Up For Battle Over Accounting Standards

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity, Tohmatsu, Council of Institutional Investors, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, Economy, Financial Services Roundtable, American Council for Capital Formation, Reform, National Association of Home Builders, Ernst and Young, Accf, Financial Executives International, Jim Turley, Center for Audit Quality, Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, National Multi Housing Council, Paul Volcker, Real Estate, Accounting, American Bankers Association, Sec, Aba, Calpers, Fasb, Financial Reform, Investment Company Institute, Institute of Management Accountants, US SEC, National Apartment Association, Grant Thornton Llp, Ed Perlmutter, Kpmg, Recession, Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee, Deloitte Touche, Council of Federal Home Loan Banks, Perlmutter, Real Estate Roundtable, Banks, Emails, Politics News

In the midst of what was supposed to be a Congressional push for increased financial regulation and accountability, a powerful coalition of moneyed in...

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Ally Bank: Is GMAC's Rebranded Bank Using Bailout To Offer High-Interest CDs?

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Fdic, Ally Bank, Cds, Banks, Bank Bailout, Gmac, American Bankers Association, Business News

NEW YORK — Its TV and print ads poke fun at the bait-and-switch tactics of other banks. Its interest rates on CDs have been the most generous in the...

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When Banks Fail, So Do Those Promised CD Rates

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Capitalsouth, Fdic, CD Rates, Banks, Normal Jean Scott, Fixed-Term CDs, Iberiabank, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, American Bankers Association, Business News

Norma Jean Scott, a 63-year-old Alabama retiree, thought she was being prudent three years ago when she stashed her $100,000 retirement nest egg in a ...

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News Flash: Lenders Prefer Fragmented Regulation of the Consumer Financial Marketplace

Norman I. Silber | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Consumer Financial Protection, Cfpa, Regulation, Chamber of Commerce, House Financial Services Committee, American Bankers Association, Business News
Norman I. Silber

Regulators appear to have placed a higher value on protecting the interests of those who sell financial products than on the interests of consumers of transparent, safe, and fair financial products.

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HuffPost's Ryan Grim On Banks: 'Critical Time' In History of Financial Reform (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Dylan Ratigan, Morning Meeting, Ryan Grim, American Bankers Association, Ryan Grim Video, Business News
Huff TV

HuffPost senior congressional correspondent Ryan Grim joined the Morning Meeting panel today to discuss the news that hundreds of protesters have desc...

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The American Bankers Association's 15 Minutes of Fame in Chicago

Dean Baker | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Too Big to Fail, Bailouts, Fdic, Richard Durbin, American Bankers Association, Chicago, Aba, Sheila Bair, Business News
Dean Baker

Like termites, the American Bankers Association does most of its damage in the dark. But the ABA is getting a brief period in the limelight this week as a result of the Showdown in Chicago.

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Showdown In Chicago: Sheila Bair Speaks To Protesters, Backs Consumer Protection Agency (VIDEO)

Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Protests, Fdic, Showdown in Chicago, Aba, Seiu, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Afl-Cio, National People's Action, Slideshow, Sheila Bair, American Bankers Association, Business News

ORIGINAL POST (Scroll down for a slideshow of today's protests): Before she appeared at the American Bankers Association annual convention today, Fe...

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"Showdown In Chicago": Monitor The Latest Via Twitter!

Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Protests, Showdown in Chicago, Aba, Ed Yingling, American Bankers Association, Business News

As we reported, the American Bankers Association annual convention in Chicago continue to draw significant protests. As the events proceed, we've been...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Ed Yingling: Banking Industry's Top Defender Got It Wrong Over and Over Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Aba, Financial Reform, Lobbyists, Cfpa, Credit Cards, Heather Booth, Americans for Financial Reform, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Edward L. Yingling, Ed-Yingling, Overdraft Fees, Financial Crisis, Banks, Bank Lobbying, Edward Yingling, Ed Yingling, Financial Regulation, American Bankers Association, Business News

As the American Bankers Association gathers for its annual convention in Chicago amid hundreds of protesters, and sets off to kill or at least defang ...

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"Showdown In Chicago": Protesters Crash Bankers Convention, (VIDEO, IMAGES)

Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Protests, ABA Conference, Showdown in Chicago, Aba, Seiu, Afl-Cio, Slideshow, American Bankers Association, Business News

UPDATED 10/26 6:06 Alex Parker attended the event on behalf of the Huffington Post and collected this video. Parker took shots various shots of ...

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My City Is Being Invaded by Banksters

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: American Banking Association, Aba, Bonus Outrage, Banksters, Wall St, Goldman Sachs, Aig, JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street Crisis, Showdown in Chicago, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Chicago, Seui, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, American Bankers Association, Business News
Matthew Filipowicz

In mere days, my city, Chicago will be overrun by the worst of the worst. The lowest of the low. Criminals who have affected more lives than any mug...

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Showdown in Chicago

Richard Trumka | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: American Bankers Association, CEO Pay, Chicago, Lobbyists, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Federal Reserve, Afl-Cio, Goldman Sachs, Labor, Unemployment, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Ceos, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Union Blogs, Bonuses, Unions, Inequality, Bankers, Joblessness, Recession, Labor Unions, Economic Recovery, Business News
Richard Trumka

We're gathering outside the American Bankers Association meeting to demand reform that will allow us to rebuild our communities, our lives and the real economy. We've got a lot to rebuild.

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Is Your Blood Boiling at the Big Bankers? Go to Chicago

Mike Lux | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: American Bankers Association, Chicago, Banking Industry, Big Banks, Financial Reform, Business News
Mike Lux

Have you seen the latest stories about the profits and bonuses of the biggest banks on Wall Street? If you want to do something about it, I'd recommend going to Chicago next week.

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Banks Added 10,000 Branches During Boom, But Left Inner Cities Behind

AP | FRANK BASS and LINDA STEWART BALL | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank, Bank Reform, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, American Bankers Association, Business News

DALLAS — Banks expanded at a breathtaking pace over the past five years, adding more than 10,000 full-service branches, but barely 1 in 10 were ...

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Bank Lobby Already Winning Battles

nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Richard Durbin, Bank of America, Banks, Banking Crisis, Bank Bailout, American Bankers Association, Business News

As Congressional Democrats and the White House crow about multiple victories over the financial industry, including new rules for credit card issuers,...

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Banks Lobby To Be Both Buyers and Sellers In Troubled Asset Program

wsj.com | DAVID ENRICH, LIZ RAPPAPORT and JENNY STRASBURG | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Fdic, Bank Lobby, Private Public Investment Program, Wells Fargo, Ppip, Banking Regulation, Bank of America, Banking Crisis, Citigroup, American Bankers Association, Business News

Some banks are prodding the government to let them use public money to help buy troubled assets from the banks themselves. Banking trade groups are...

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Ryan Grim

Banks Playing Both Sides On Bankruptcy Bill, Have Reform On Life Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bankruptcy, Senate Democrats, American Bankers Association, Cramdow, Politics News

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and other Senate Democrats have spent the last several weeks negotiating with major banks, including JPMorga...

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Used Car Market's Deceptive Lending Practices

McClatchy Washington Bureau | David Lightman | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Loans, Deceptive Lending Used Cars, Used Car Deceptive Lending, Used Cars, American Bankers Association, Financial Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Many car buyers are having the same kind of trouble obtaining and paying off loans that plagued America's housing market, new data show....

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