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Byline: Brett Arends Deutsche Bank may dump Scudder name. At the end of the First World War, the Germans scuttled their navy rather than hand it over. Now they seem […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS and JAY FITZGERALD U.S. Rep. Barney Frank yesterday took direct aim at soaring executive pay, citing the massive windfalls for "Pinata" Jim Kilts and former FleetBoston honcho […]

Byline: Brett Arends Massachusetts bank honcho Mary Lynn Lenz has been named one of the 10 most powerful women in American banking by the industry bible, U.S. Banker magazine. Lenz […]

Byline: Brett Arends Chinatown's Asian-American Bank & Trust yesterday agreed to be taken over for $34 million. The institution, which was founded 12 years ago, is being bought by San […]

Byline: Brett Arends Roger Berkowitz and the other independent directors of Century Bank are backing the controlling Sloane family in the row with two outside investors. The Medford-based community bank's […]

Byline: Brett Arends Remember the Purge of the Dot-Com Refuseniks? In the final months of dot-com mania, the handful of money managers who had warned against (and refused to take […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS For 40 years, Marshall Sloane and his family have ruled Medford-based Century Bank without question. Until now. Two investment firms yesterday revealed they had snapped up 10 […]

Byline: Brett Arends Thousands of Bank of America customers across New England may have had their financial records stolen and sold to debt collection agencies, the company admitted yesterday. Its […]

Byline: Brett Arends A Herald report saying that 40,000 Bank of America accounts would be denied ATM, Internet and automated phone access for five weeks this summer came as news […]

Byline: Brett Arends A good deal for museum fanatics: Just $2.50 will give you free entry to 60 museums around the Northeast, including 15 in Boston, during the month of […]

Byline: Brett Arends The bright red signs aren't to everyone's taste, but converting Fleet branches to Bank of America is otherwise proving a success. BofA signed up 79,000 net checking […]

Byline: Brett Arends Around the anniversary of Paul Revere's ride, Citizens CEO Larry Fish is heading over to Britain to deal with a rebellion of his own. Shareholders in Royal […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS When the Back Bay "artful dodger" skipped town for London this week, he left behind an estimated 20,000 works of art - and a looming legal battle […]

Byline: Brett Arends The collapse of Haley & Steele has created an unlikely new recruit to the Newbury Street art world. Marshall Sloane and his family-controlled Century Bank took control […]

Byline: Brett Arends Chad Gifford isn't happy. The man who sold FleetBoston to Bank of America responded to questions yesterday about the millions he accumulated before taking early retirement in […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Chad Gifford's retirement package from Bank of America may have been even bigger than first thought. A lot bigger. BofA's latest regulatory filings reveal that Gifford, who […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS It began as an innocent inquiry into how much Larry Fish was being paid to run Citizens Bank. Now the parent company of the fast-growing New England […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Just how much is Larry Fish really getting paid to run Citizens Bank? The answer is more complex than you might think. The Herald has been wrangling […]

Byline: Brett Arends Washington's new bankruptcy bill isn't perfect. But for the credit card companies, it still looks like the best law money can buy. According to the Center for […]