Tom Storrs, who set a small North Carolina bank on the path to becoming one of the largest U.S. financial institutions, died Friday at age 93.
A source has told American Banker that the terms of this week's massive national mortgage servicing settlement have not been finalized, and that politics drove Thursday's announcement.
Rumours surrounding iPad 3's release in early March have boosted Apple (AAPL) shares to over $500, with a net surplus of 5 per cent rise in stock value in the last two days alone.
Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of 34 Italian banks after lowering the country's credit just a month earlier.