IN Focus.(banks operated by insurance companies)(Brief Article)

During the past quarter century, financial service industries in the United States have survived a number of crises in which thousands of banks, thrifts, credit unions, investment firms and insurance companies failed. Those failures, combined with a persistent and mounting wave of mergers, have reduced the ranks of U.S. depository, ......

Commercial real estate financing can take on very different terms, and the way deals are structured is based on a number of factors.

As banks, S&Ls and insurance companies nationwide struggled, Indiana's financial institutions were keeping shareholders happy. What recession? That's the question that observers of Indiana's financial institutions probably are asking in the wake of impressive 1991 earnings that have carried over into the first quarter of 1992. As banks, savings and ......

HEADNOTE ADDITIONAL SERVICES PIT BANKS, INVESTMENT FIRMS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES AS DIRECT COMPETITORS. One-stop shopping is not just alive and well. It's multiplying like so many bunnies in a hutch. We can have our prescriptions filled at the local grocery store, buy our groceries at the corner gasoline station, and ......

Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City (NHS) and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) recently acknowledged members of the banking and insurance industry at a breakfast sponsored by KeySpan Energy celebrating the affordable housing commitments of eight financial institutions and two insurance companies. Institutions recognized for ......

ABSTRACT The bancassurance (i.e., bank and insurance company combinations) model for financial firm architecture has been widely used in Europe and recently has been adopted by U.S. financial firms. We provide evidence regarding the viability of bancassurance combinations for U.S. and non-U.S. mergers between 1997 and 2002. We find positive ......

Banks, insurance companies and other organizations within the financial industry today face the dilemma of increased competition, low customer loyalty and few opportunities to sell something new to their customers; and all the while, it costs far more to recruit a new customer than it does to retain a current ......

Interview with Peter Lucash, AllBusiness.com's Medical Practice Advisor.

Interview with Peter Lucash, AllBusiness.com's Medical Practice Advisor ......

Interview with Peter Lucash, AllBusiness.com's Medical Practice Advisor ......

Are you hiding under a rock about the real truth on business disaster? Think it won't happen to you? Think again. Disasters, both big and small, happen every single day in the business world. Just read the news headlines -- fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes. Not to mention the small disasters ......

Unbeknownst to most, a change was made to Washington State's contractor registration statute that went into effect this past July requiring that many real estate investors and developers be licensed as a contractor.

Prt of good personal finance is making sure that you are properly covered by insurance. And, of course, your auto insurance premiums will be part of your monthly financial planning. Looking for a good auto insurance deal can be troublesome, but it should be done. Shopping around for a good ......

In February I moved. In August I put up my bookshelves. Sound familiar? If you´re a book lover then you´ll probably also identify with the satisfying feeling of unpacking your books, dusting them off and carefully shelving them in a new abode-if you can get them from the box to ......