Company: US Bancorp

(Reuters) - The financial crisis and its aftermath have been brutal for Wall Street's richest and most powerful women. The latest casualty: Ina Drew, the head of JPMorgan Chase's chief investment office, who departed last week after the bank suffered mammoth trading losses.

(Reuters) - The financial crisis and its aftermath have been brutal for Wall Street's richest and most powerful women. The latest casualty: Ina Drew, the head of JPMorgan Chase's chief investment office, who departed last week after the bank suffered mammoth trading losses.

(Reuters) - Nine creditors of Residential Capital LLC, including the insurers American International Group Inc and Allstate Corp, were selected to join the unsecured creditors committee for the mortgage lender's bankruptcy.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co is seeking to move its least profitable checking customers into new prepaid debit card accounts to boost earnings in a business crimped by new regulations.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co plans to move its least profitable checking customers into new accounts that rely more heavily on debit cards, in an effort to boost earnings in a business that has been clobbered by new regulations.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N> plans to move its least profitable checking customers into new prepaid debit card accounts to boost earnings in a business crimped by new regulations.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N> plans to move its least profitable checking customers into new accounts that rely more heavily on debit cards, in an effort to boost earnings in a business that has been clobbered by new regulations.

(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co made a record 33.9 percent of U.S. mortgage loans in the first quarter, as rivals such as Bank of America Corp continued to pull back in the home lending market.

(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co made a record 33.9 percent of U.S. mortgage loans in the first quarter, as rivals such as Bank of America Corp continued to pull back in the home lending market.

When David Wegner went looking for a checking account in January, he was peppered with offers for low-end financial products, including a prepaid debit card with numerous fees, a short-term emergency loan with steep charges, money wire services and check-cashing options.

Businesses are asking for more credit, consumers want more loans and mortgage demand is the highest in US Bancorp's history, CEO Richard Davis told CNBC Tuesday. That makes him optimistic the economy is taking small steps toward recovery.

U.S. Bancorp posted first-quarter profit above analysts' expectations as credit quality at the regional lender improved.

After the slowest year for U.S. bank mergers in three decades, investment bankers are seeing flickers of a recovery.

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Stocks closed near highs of the session Wednesday with the S&P finishing at its highest level since July 2011, buoyed by an optimistic report on Greece, which added fuel to an earlier rally after a better-than-expected housing market report.