January 12, 2012 – 4:48 AM
Royal Bank of Scotland is eliminating 3,500 investment bank jobs and will sell or shut the bank’s equities and advisory business under a 3-year plan to further reduce risk. RBS said the bank will focus more on domestic retail and corporate banking. RBS, 83 percent owned by the UK government, on Thursday said it will [...]
January 5, 2012 – 6:39 PM
Thanks goodness for credit card reform. Compared to the old days it is really nice to get email reminders when a credit card payment is due. Confirmation emails are wonderful. What happened to huge profits generated by credit card companies when they “forgot” to mail a statement, just to make you pay interest on “zero [...]
By Timothy Blake
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Tagged foreclosure, GE, Household Bank, HSBC, Internal Revenue Service, investor refinance, Kentucky, mortgage refinance, Ocwen Financial, pretty straight forward, Saxon Mortgage, the Wall Street Journal, USAA, Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo
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December 30, 2011 – 3:02 PM
Meeting another end-of-2011 goal Lender Watch recently completed reprogramming of HSBC Watch. The website was formerly located at householdwatch.com and the new domain name better reflects today’s visitor interests. Timothy Blake and Lender Watch have owned the domain name HSBCWatch.com for many years.
December 21, 2011 – 2:40 PM
A recent article on Equities.com by Brittany Barrett tells us which Wall Street Banks are laying off the most people. Our Lender watch articles reflect layoff announcements as they happened, but Barrett puts figures all in one place. You might find the results both interesting and revealing.
December 11, 2011 – 1:16 PM
An article referencing “Colorado Counties Foreclosure Fees” was forwarded to my desk, with a big question mark. What was my take on a madly spinning article? There were more questions than answers and the way departments and counties handled the excess does not make them villains.