Banking and Finance

Sheryl Moore, president and CEO of annuity market research firm Wink Inc. in Des Moines, has been accepted into the Forbes Finance Council. The invitation-only council provides select executives in accounting, financial planning, wealth and asset management, and …

For the fifth consecutive year, West Bancorporation Inc. has been named among the country’s top performing publicly traded banking operations with assets between $500 million and $10 billion. The West Des Moines-based parent of West …

Wells Fargo’s wealth management business is facing a fresh investigation into whether clients were sold inappropriate investments and steered into high-cost advisory accounts, Financial Planning reported. On Thursday, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin announced that …

For the 17th consecutive year, Principal Financial Group has been named one of the Top Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives. Principal is a member of the NAFE Top Companies Hall of …

Four Greater Des Moines wealth advisers were named among 10 Iowa firms highlighted by Forbes as Best-In-State Wealth Advisors. The criteria, developed by Shook Research, is based on an algorithm of qualitative criteria, mostly gained through telephone …

Iowa banks reported net income of $937 million at the end of 2017, up 1.4 percent from the prior year. Profits were affected by one-time revaluation of deferred tax assets as required by the federal …