BUFFALO — A bank purposely avoided giving mortgages to African-Americans by locating all of its branches outside black neighborhoods and directing advertising and loan products toward largely white communities, New York’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday as ...

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BUFFALO — HSBC doesn't expect the bank's plan to cut 30,000 jobs worldwide by 2013 to make a big dent in its western New York work force. The British banking group announced the job cuts on Monday ...

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NEW YORK CITY — JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s second-quarter income rose 13 percent as the bank collected higher fees from equity and debt underwriting in its investment banking business. The bank also cut losses in its credit card portfolio.

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NEW YORK CITY — No one imagined the way careless smoking spiraled into a deadly inferno in a toxic ground zero bank tower, so three construction-company supervisors shouldn’t be blamed for it, a defense lawyer said Tuesday as their manslaughter trial neared an end.

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BUFFALO — First Niagara Financial Group says it will create 500 well-paying new jobs over the next five years in New York. The Buffalo-headquartered bank says Monday the new jobs will be located in western New York and across the rest of Upstate.

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