The ad plan "precedes any issues in the mortgage business," and is part of a strategy to expand its retail banking. WaMu is the nation's sixth-largest bank/thrift, with $528 billion in assets ...

It, too, is written in bank-ese requiring an hour or so of reading. The fees, for example, could range from $8 monthly maintenance to 25 cents per check written.

So we were surprised to see the ad that Steuben Trust Co., which has a full-service branch in Clarence, has run in this area on and off since around February touting the bank's flexible term CD.

A bank sharing customer data with other commercial parties goes against all of that. We believe that there is no law permitting the sale of any data that is yours," Bart Combée, director of ...

The ad plan "precedes any issues in the mortgage business," and is part of a strategy to expand its retail banking. WaMu is the nation's sixth-largest bank/thrift, with $528 billion in assets ...