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While the pandemic has seen banks, including national and regional banks, closing branches amid changing consumer behaviors and preferences, Chase Bank plans to continue its branch expansion into Greater Hartford.

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Following its merger this year with Sterling Bancorp, the parent company of Stamford-based Webster Bank has established a $6.5 billion community benefits plan that will invest in the communities within the bank’s footprint.

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Housing markets across the country may be slumping, but across Connecticut, indicators suggest demand is still stronger than the pre-pandemic baseline, even if it is waning.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to improve customer service at big banks and credit unions by launching an initiative that it said would help customers “assert their rights to better customer service.”

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Two of the biggest-name brokerages that sought to challenge the established hierarchy of residential brokerages announced major layoffs Tuesday as buyer frenzy cooled nation-wide.

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A new report from commercial real estate brokerage CBRE put New Haven in the top 20 markets for life science talent nationwide.

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For months, Chair Jerome Powell has held out hope that the Federal Reserve will be able to raise interest rates high enough to throttle rampant inflation without tipping the economy into recession. That looks less likely now.

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George Darling, the founder and chairman of New England-based major bank consultancy Darling Consulting Group, has died at the age of 77.

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JPMorgan Chase has hired Eduardo Cabrera as the first member of a Bridgeport-based team that will focus on the key drivers of closing the racial wealth gap.

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Connecticut communities have begun submitting to state officials their homegrown strategies for creating more affordable housing.

In some towns and cities, the plans are encouraging. In others, there are no plans at all.

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Banking trade groups, including the Connecticut Bankers Association, have asked Congress to include marijuana banking legislation as part of a larger bill to provide funding for U.S. manufacturing and technology initiatives.

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A new report from the National Multifamily Housing Council hints at the costs created by the kind of strident local opposition that’s bedeviled new apartment and condominium projects across Connecticut.

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Stamford-based Webster Bank has named Vikram Nafde executive vice president and chief information officer.

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The share of borrowers who are current on their mortgage payments and not in delinquency or foreclosure has increased by more than three percentage points over the past year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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A longtime employee of a Berlin-based company has been indicted for an embezzlement scheme that allegedly saw more than $1 million deposited into a bank account referencing the company’s name.

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Publicly-traded banks and other companies regulated by the SEC could face new requirements to disclose how how climate risk affects their businesses.

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President Joe Biden on Monday urged U.S. companies to make sure their digital doors are locked tight because of “evolving intelligence” that Russia is considering launching cyberattacks against critical infrastructure.

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While most Connecticut credit unions had positive net income in 2021, the state’s credit unions had one of the lowest returns on average assets in the U.S.

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