citizens bank
| 5:30PM 10/22/2009
After leading an investment team to buy The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2006, Brian P. Tierney invited the widow of its onetime owner, Walter Annenberg, to visit him in her husband's old office. While visiting, Lenore Annenberg noted that Tierney had situated his desk differently from her...
| 1:30PM 10/21/2009
It might be the ultimate early-morning eye-opener: imagine stopping in Dunkin' Donuts for a morning coffee and opening a checking account at the same time.
It's not a far-fetched scenario, as Citizens Bank this month opened the first full-service bank branch in a Dunkin' Donuts shop. And if the...
| 5:30PM 8/21/2009
With regulators working hard to line up buyers for failed banks, it's of little surprise that foreign financial companies are entering the fray. Indeed, some of the biggest names in international finance have used acquisitions to establish or expand their presence in the United States.
Next up may...
| 8:00AM 3/26/2009
Think taxpayers are angry at Wall Street? People in the U.K. may be angrier.
Vandals attacked the Edinburgh home of Sir Fred Goodwin, who built the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) into the fifth-largest bank by market capitalization, only to watch it evaporate as the government was forced to bail it...