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Anat Yalif's self-appointed mission for this coming year is 'to give our bankers the sense of urgency and entreprenuerial spirit that the investment bankers with whom we compete already have.' [...]

City Federal has been able to better its cash position through hedging, and this will begin to show it on accounting reports. The S&L always weighs risk vs. reward, and with its asset and liability hedges, it has kept earnings reasonabley steady.

Large U.S. banks are hedging assets and liabilities as interest rates continue to fluctuate. This strategy reduces risk and thereby allows banks to offer fixed-rate loans to customers. It is also advantageous in Eurodollar yields.

Foreign banks doing business in the United States are hedging funds in order to offer fixed rates on loans. They hope to attract business from corporate borrowers. Lenders are using the same methods to sometimes make a forward-forward deal which involves hedging rates on a loan to be made in the future.

Futures consultants may be making a bigger contribution to banking than anyone realizes. For some of the most sophisticated computer models that analyze assets and liabilities are being offered, not [...]

CHICAGO -- The Japanese term 'Chicago dollar' was coined with about as much endearment as the label 'Gnomes of Zurich.' But unlike the unfortunate characterization of those Swiss bankers, the [...]

Speculation has arisen over Citicorp's bids for New Biscayne and First Federal S&L of Chicago. It is possible that Citicorp cut a deal with the Bank Board to take both S&Ls. Rumors were fueled by the short comment period and blank pages in the approval.

Continental Bank of Chicago is now offering corporate customers a new collection service. It collects checks in 18 cities every day and flies them to Chicago. They are processed faster and customers have better banking information and service.

THE PHENOLMENAL growth of Lyons Savings and Loan in suburban Chicago has stirred up plenty of storm clouds -- but the executives think the thrift can avoid any bolt of [...]

CHICAGO, EARTH -- 'Beam me up Scotty, there's no prospect of finance down here.' Undoubtedly, that's what Star Trek's Captain Kirk, commander of the science-fiction Starship Enterprise, would say if [...]

BROWN DEER, Wis. -- When it comes to inventing financial guarantees, Wall Street has nothing on one small Wisconsin bank. The independent Brown Deer Bank has created a unique vehicle [...]

Politicking by the U.S. Treasury Department before the seven-nation economic summit in London in early June may have caused the latest scare for the American banking system. Investors and traders [...]

CHICAGO -- Continental Illinois Corp.'s stock price was battered and yields on its certificates of deposit jumped sharply Thursday amid rumors that it would be taken over by a group [...]

NEW YORK -- Banks may soon tempt corporate treasurers with a candy-store range of private options on foreign currencies, thanks to a new computer software program. this potentially vast market [...]

Opportunities to finance the latest magic growth industry -- cellular radio -- may be greater than most banks realize. But so will the pitfalls. While there are estimates that perhaps [...]

ACLI International Commodity Services has established a futures unit which advises banks and corporations on how to hedge against changes in interest rates. Critics charge that the basis of risk involved in such an analysis is unacceptably high.

BancOklahoma Stung by Oil Price Drop Despite Keeping Energy Loans in Check Like lightning, collapses in energy prices care not where they strike. Just ask Leonard Eaton, chairman of BancOklahoma [...]

Banks of Mid-America Treads Water, Waits for Cheap-Oil Flood to Subside There may be a few red faces over Banks of Mid-America's 1985 annual report. But that's the least of [...]

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. -- Competition from Sears' Discover card may prove fiercer than bankers expected. Many have taken the brainchild of Sears, Roebuck and Co. to be just another credit card [...]

CHICAGO -- Traders expect interest rate futures to hold within a fairly narrow trading range for the next few days. At least, they expect Treasury bond futures to do so. [...]

Mystery still enshrouds prime rate loans at many banks. For trying to find the best, safest, or consistently most profitable way to fund them (or any combination of the three) [...]

CHICAGO -- A new foreign exchange vehicle is intriguing many corporate treasurers and baffling almost as many banks. Only one or two banks have managed to make it work so [...]

Wall Street is unhappy with the possibility of a Eurodollar futures market. They are unhappy because the futures will be based on time deposits not nonnegotiable time deposits.

The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. has devised a new plan designed to buy some time for financially troubled building and loan associations. The plan involves the idea of temporary or 'interim' mergers pending more permanent solutions.