The banking crisis isn't over.
THE IMMEDIATE reaction to the mention of a "banking crisis" these days is likely to be: What crisis? After all, banks are reporting record profits, failures are down, and the Clinton Administration even was able to find budget savings because less would be needed for the bank insurance fund...

Heads I win, tails you lose.
NO, VIRGINIA, Ronald Reagan did not cause the savings-and-loan crisis. The time bomb that became that crisis was designed in the 1930s, tested in the 1960s, and ignited in the 1970s. A July 1981 report to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (the federal agency that regulated the S&Ls)...

S&Ls in Wright country.
S&Ls in Wright Country ALOT OF savings-and-loans got into trouble in the early Eighties, squeezed between the high interest rates they needed to pay to attract money and then low rates they were locked into receiving on their outstanding loans; many of them were also hurt by a...

The Keating fizzle.
S I write on January 15, the Capitol is withdrawn and uneasy, fearful of terrorism. In the hallways of the Capitol building, the routine banter and laughter are missing. And security has tightened: the Capitol police are now asking all visitors to remove their coats, which are frisked thoroughly....

Media Advisory - TD Bank Financial Group to release fourth-quarter and fiscal-2008 financial results.
TORONTO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG) will release its fourth-quarter and fiscal-2008 financial results and host an earnings conference call on Thursday, December 4, 2008. Financial results for the quarter and fiscal 2008 are expected to be issued in a press release at...

TD Bank Financial Group Finalizes Size of Common Share Offering.
TORONTO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank Financial Group or TDBFG) today announced that a syndicate of underwriters led by TD Securities Inc. has exercised the over-allotment option to purchase an additional 4.5 million common shares. This brings the total issue announced on November 24, 2008,...

TD Bank Financial Group CFO to Present at Goldman Sachs Conference.
TORONTO, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Colleen Johnston, Group Head Finance and Chief Financial Officer, TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG), will present at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference in New York on December 11, 2008. Colleen Johnston's presentation, a strategic overview of TDBFG, will begin at...

TD Bank Financial Group CEO to Present at Merrill Lynch Conference.
TORONTO, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ed Clark, President and Chief Executive Officer, TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG), will present at the Merrill Lynch Banking & Financial Services Investor Conference in New York on November 12, 2008. Ed Clark's presentation, a strategic overview of TDBFG, will begin at...

Mr. Carlos M. Garcia, President of Banco Santander Puerto Rico, Will Leave His Position to Accept Senior Executive Position in Puerto Rico Government.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Santander BanCorp (the "Company") (NYSE: SBP; LATIBEX: XSBP) announced today that Mr. Carlos M. Garcia will leave his position as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors of the Company, and as President of...

/U P D A T E - TD Bank Financial Group; Commerce BANCORP Inc./.
In c8383 transmitted on October 27, 2008, there has been a change to the time of Colleen Johnston's presentation. The presentation will now begin at 12:45 p.m. ET. Updated copy follows: TD Bank Financial Group CFO to Present at Conference TORONTO, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --...