Banking

The bank will get a $20 billion tax holiday if it can buy Wachovia

How does a 60% return in eight days sound?

The Colorado bankers Association issues a statement on bank safety

Trade groups are increasingly agitated by banks' bad press

The bank's stock trades down sharply before a holiday-weekend announcement

The buyer of Heritage Bank is down 80 percent since the deal was announced in October 2006

A deal with Countrywide earns the bank national attention - but not for the reason you'd think

One purchase makes the national giant the biggest bank in the rural county

Quietly spending more than $1 billion

Good news for Bank of the West and Wachovia. For Wells Fargo, not so hot.

US Alliance Credit Union joins the list of insolvent institutions

The first-quarter bad-loan provision exceeds the one for all of 2007

After a lackluster 2007, Colorado's biggest local bank roars back in 1Q

A pioneer of the grocery-store bank branch is closing 12 of 14 in the Denver market

Local financial pros and regulators weigh on on a major proposal to shake up federal financial regulation

The bank holding company wants to line up its name with Guaranty Bank, its subsidiary

The mutual-fund manager takes an $18.2 million loss after stepping in to protect investors in its money-market funds

As the Seattle thrift tries to rebound, it's staying small in Colorado

A recent list of banks with high CRA ratings left out the majors

The Greenwood Village ag lender cites “exceptional conditions” in agribusiness

Kareina Westlund comes from Salt Lake City

Fred Wiesner died Wednesday at 79

Valuation professional Bob Kleeman says Centennial Bank Holding's financial advisers would have "egg on their faces" if there was another writedown in 2008

U.S. Bank and Chase Bank are in expansion mode, but other major players are steady or slightly down

Trade pub American Banker includes Denver company in national roundup

The community bank is just the 10th Colorado-based institution to get an "Outstanding " CRA rating.

The two Southeast banking behemoths express interest in Colorado - but only one has done much

A $142.2 million charge may not be the end of the troubles for the Denver bank

The Denver banking company could have made a bigger provision to its loan-loss allowance

A few funny thoughts in the midst of the meltdown at Societe Generale

Execs of Colorado's only foreign capital depository failed to show for their protest, and receiver Phil Feigin will amp up his efforts (UPDATED with board vote)

Wells Fargo is the new No. 1 in Wyoming

The former CEO says "we should have known better" about risky home lending

The Arkansas governor serves as a director of a company linked to BestBank co-conspirators

Don't count on BofA making its long-anticipated Colorado debut after the Countrywide deal

It's no surprise Brian Wilkinson is a bank president - but it's at Steele Street Bank & Trust

A British TV personality dares the public to commit identity theft - one guess as to what happened

Denver joins St. Louis and Portland in bank's retail push

An unknown real-estate developer owns nearly 15% of Solera National Bancorp

Sung Won Sohn, former Wells Fargo chief economist, explains his departure from his job as CEO of Hanmi Bank in Los Angeles

Releasing bad news on New Year's Eve actually heightens the risk of negative attention

The parent of Vectra Bank Colorado reveals more mortgage troubles

The rumor mill grinds, so we look at how a big bank deal could boost Chase's retail banking network here

Sung Won Sohn, former Wells Fargo economist, retires suddenly from his job as CEO of Hanmi Bank in Los Angeles (UPDATED with Sohn comments)

Read the unexpurgated comments of local IB folks on what the next year holds

The parent of Vectra Bank Colorado says it will take a $94 million charge because of a 75% freefall in its collateralized debt obligations

The FDIC announces it's bringing back retirees, raising questions about what the current staff is doing

Colorado credit-union regulators have seized Zion United Community Credit Union in Denver (UPDATED)

Local investment banks have been busy completing transactions (UPDATED with Tuesday's news of a Dynamic Materials deal.)

The announcement of a union press conference marks a high - or low- in populist rhetoric

Patricia Barela Rivera notified colleagues this morning (UPDATED with Rivera interview.)

Cary Kennedy tries to head off concerns after Florida screws up its local governments' finances

As the company hits new lows, the company's founder and chairman is boosting his holdings. (UPDATED with another share purhcase).

Colorado banks are seeing more problem loans, lower profits

J.P. Morgan Chase gets approval from investment analyst ... Lenny Dykstra?

Drilling down into SBA lending numbers shows some unfamiliar names gaining ground

The San Francisco-based bank - Colorado's biggest - says subprime exposure will cost it $1.4 billion

In the quest to avoid cliches, we find a German CEO delivers.

U.S. Bancorp should have known what a VISA settlement would cost it, but the number didn't make it into the company's third-quarter filing.

Colorado’s last remaining “offshore bank” is out of money and has been shut by state regulators.

The backers of Lakewood's Solera Bank get a lucrative reward from the company.

The only thing unusual about FirstBank's latest grand opening is how long it took to hold a proper event

Saturday's Wall Street Journal put Lakewood-based Solera Bank on the cover of the Money & Investing section

A simple mortgage offer could make life a whole lot more complicated for those who take it.

A libertarian Australian Web site takes shots at Denver's Korean-owned commercial lender