Alan Kline

Keith Mestrich adds a CEO title, as Amalgamated Bank in New York finally announces a successor to Ed Grebow.

Dan Henry is in search of another "aha" moment. The former CEO of NetSpend is interested in staying in payments, but not necessarily in the prepaid cards niche.

SunTrust names Rilla Delorier's successor as CMO; Amalgamated settles on a new CEO, while NetSpend loses one; and lots of new high-profile board members at banks from New York to Hawaii.

Modest loan growth, lower expenses and a sharp decrease in problem loans powered United Community Banks in Blairsville, Ga., to a $16.4 million profit in the second quarter.

Shares of Fulton Financial fell early Wednesday after the Lancaster, Pa., company reported second-quarter results that missed expectations.

Fueled by strong growth in commercial real estate and specialty lending, Signature Bank in New York reported another record profit for the quarter that ended June 30.

Earnings at Associated Banc-Corp (ASBC) fell slightly in the second quarter as growth in commercial lending failed to offset a sharp decline in income from mortgage banking.

Northern Trust (NTRS) in Chicago has named a new chief financial officer and split the roles of president and chief operating officer as part of series of leadership changes that will take effect on Sept. 1.

The world's oldest and largest custody bank is counting its recently launched Continuous Process Improvement strategy to drive its transformation — and bolster its bottom line.

Executive pay packages have long been structured to reflect performance. But one key task that often gets short shrift from bank directors and CEOs is succession planning. Now pressure is mounting for that to change.

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross is looking to raise roughly $400 million to buy or invest in struggling companies.

First Horizon National Corp. announced late Tuesday that it will pay $110 million to the Federal Housing Finance Agency to settle allegations that it sold faulty mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the years leading up to housing bust.

Eastern Bank in Boston has established a new unit to develop technologies for itself and other banks and has tapped the former leaders of the tech startup PerkStreet to run it.

Aided by strong growth in loans and income from trust services, City National (CYN) in Los Angeles reported net income $54.5 million the first quarter, up 6% from the same period last year.

Finding its local businesses starved of conventional bank loans, Kansas City steps in with an effective microlending program.

The squabbling over who is responsible for the massive data breach at Target stores resumed Thursday when a group representing retail banks rolled out a new set of numbers detailing how much the breach has cost banks.

Strong loan and asset growth powered the Internet banking company BofI Holding (BOFI) to record profits in the quarter that ended Dec. 31.

Longtime CEO William Cooper tells analysts that he is as optimistic as ever about his company's growth prospects following its reinvention.

Rockville Financial (RCBK) in Glastonbury, Conn., is beefing up its mortgage lending operation ahead of its pending merger with United Financial (UBNK) in Massachusetts.

Regions Financial (RF) in Birmingham, Ala., said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter earnings fell 14% from the same period in 2012, to $227 million, due to a number of one-time charges it took to strengthen its balance sheet and improve efficiency.