News on Richard Davis (Executive)

Bankers try to put a better face before Congress

2010-02-22T12:36:00Z

<div id="subtitle">Bankers seek to improve image as Senate talks on how to regulate them hit impasse</div><div><p>Looking to douse public and congressional anger, chief executives at some of the biggest financial institutions are on a mission to repair their image and gain more influence over legislation that would overhaul regulations that govern their industry.</p><p>They have their work cut out for them.&l...

US Bancorp profit rises, but so do charge-offs

2010-02-22T17:45:26Z

<div id="subtitle">US Bancorp 4Q profit beats expectations; write-offs for bad loans rise, but at slower pace</div><div><p>U.S. Bancorp said on Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled from a year ago, as mortgage banking revenue grew.</p><p>The bank also benefited from growth in traditional deposits, giving it a cheap source of money for l...

APTOPIX Obama Banks

2009-12-14T12:00:39Z

After chief executive officers from top U.S. financial institutions met with President Barack Obama, US Bancorp Chief Executive Officer Richard Davis, right, accompanied by Bank of New York Mellon<...

US Pres. Obama Meets With Financial Services Industry Members On Economy

2009-12-14T11:31:07Z

WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 14: Richard Davis (L), Chairman, President, and CEO of U.S. Bancorp, and Bob Kelly, CEO of Bank of New York Mellon, leave the U.S. financial institutions met with President Barack Obama, US Bancorp Chief Executive Officer Richard Davis, right, accompanied by Bank of New York Mellon<...

U.S. Bancorp looks to expand credit card business

2010-02-24T07:12:57Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Bancorp &lt;USB.N&gt;, the sixth-largest U.S. bank by assets, is looking to expand its credit card business and is actively marketing its cards nationally, Chief Ex...

US Bancorp 3Q profit rises, bad loans increase

2010-02-24T16:21:06Z

<div id="subtitle">US Bancorp 3Q profit rises 4.7 pct, says bad loan increase has slowed, shares rise</div><div><p>US Bancorp reported a 4.7 percent increase in its third-quarter profit on Wednesday and said bad loans aren't growing as fast as they were earlier this year.</p><p>US Bancorp continued to suffer from stress in home construction and related indus...

Judge upholds $4M verdict in `Flip' lawsuit in SC

2010-02-26T19:44:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Judge upholds $4 million verdict in `Flip This House' lawsuit in SC by creator against A&amp;E</div><div><p>A federal judge in South Carolina has upheld a $4 million verdict for the creator and one-time host of cable television's "Flip This House."</p><p>The

Mo. woman pleads guilty to kidnapping 5-year-old

2010-02-26T20:56:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Mo. woman already convicted of videotaped sex killings pleads guilty to kidnapping 5-year-old</div><div><p>A suburban Kansas City woman who already pleaded guilty to murder in a spree of videotaped sex killings also pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping a 5-year-old girl while fleeing police in 2006.</p><p>The latest guilty plea by 42-year-old...

U.S. Bancorp CEO: We could exit TARP in a few weeks

2010-02-27T11:12:19Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Bancorp &lt;USB.N&gt; Chief Executive Richard Davis said the bank expects in a few weeks to be eligible to repay a $6.6 billion taxpayer-funded infusion, becoming one of the first big lenders to exit the much-maligned ...

Banks Stress Tests

2009-04-24T12:34:55Z

FILE - In this March 27, 2009 file photo, Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis, center, flanked by PNC Financial Service Chief Executive Officer James E. Rohr, left, and...

Obama Meets With Heads Of Major U.S. Banks At White House

2009-03-29T07:10:28Z

WASHINGTON - MARCH 27: Richard Davis, CEO of Bancorp, talks to reporters after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House March 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama used the meeting to tell the bankers that they must look...

Obama Economy

2009-03-29T06:52:09Z

Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf, left, accompanied by US Bank Chief Executive Officer Richard Davis, speaks to reporters outside the White House in George Washington Carver Senior High School Brian Bordainick, left, and student Richard Davis stand in front of a fenced - off area that will become the " Field of Dreams " Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in New Orleans. A lifeline for students who are struggling to r...

Mo. woman pleads guilty in videotaped sex killing

2010-03-01T00:07:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Suburban Kansas City woman pleads guilty in videotaped sex killing, still faces more charges</div><div><p>A woman struck a plea deal Monday but still faces more charges in a crime spree that included the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of another woman.</p><p>Dena D. Riley, 42, pleade...

Jury awards SC man $4M in dispute over A&E show

2010-03-01T21:10:05Z

<div id="subtitle">SC real estate investor awarded $4 million in dispute over 'Flip This House' profits</div><div><p>A federal jury awarded a South Carolina real estate investor more than $4 million Wednesday in a dispute over profits from the reality television show "Flip This House."</p><p><...

Is this the best album ever made?

2010-03-02T12:48:06Z

<div><p>In the early Sixties the young George Ivan Morrison briefly played saxophone in a Belfast showband called the Olympics. Once, before a gig in Derry, the band's minibus pulled up outside his house on Hyndford Street, east Belfast and lead singer Alfie Walsh knocked on the door. Van's mother, Violet, answered, and after a few seconds of banter Walsh returned to th...

US Bancorp 3Q profit falls 47 percent

2010-02-27T23:19:45Z

<div id="subtitle">US Bancorp 3rd-quarter earnings fall 47 percent on higher credit costs, investment losses</div><div><p>U.S. Bancorp said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit fell 47 percent, below analysts' expectations, as it took hits on investments and set aside a bigger provision for credit losses.</p><p>For the period ended Sept. 30, the Kansas City-area man sentenced to death for videotaped death of woman he suffocated during sex</div><div><p>A suburban Kansas City man who videotaped the death of a woman he suffocated during sex has been sentenced to death.</p><p>Richard Davis was sentenced Fr...

Jurors view videotape of Mo. women's torture

2010-03-04T03:40:01Z

<div><p>Jurors in the capital-murder case of a man accused of killing two women viewed a DVD recording Wednesday of the women being beaten and sexually tortured.</p><p>The jury in the trial of Richard Davis, 44, reviewed 90 minutes of edited images taken from seven hours of videotapes that police found in Davis' Independence apartment.</p>&lt...