Alan Kline

Associated Banc-Corp (ASBC) is eyeing acquisitions of community banks, but its chief executive says it has little interest in failed banks and would only consider deals within its existing markets.

Streamlining and cross-selling initiatives are aimed at creating a simpler company that is more in touch with its customers, Thompson tells investors at Barclays conference.

Investors and analysts cheered SunTrust's decision to boost reserves for Fannie and Freddie repurchases, prompting speculation that other lenders could follow suit.

BBCN in Los Angeles was a prominent newcomer, but the bulk of Sandler O'Neill's eighth annual small-bank all-star team still hails from east of the Mississippi.

Responsible for its ubiquitous "What's in your wallet?" tagline, Bill McDonald helped establish Capital One as one of the nation's most recognizable consumer brands.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Friday that it has instructed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to raise the fees they charge lenders on loan guarantees in hopes of creating more private-sector competition in the secondary loan market.

Credit union membership rose to a record 93.1 million in the second quarter even as the total number of credit unions dipped below 7,000.

Continuing its rapid growth in the Northeast, M&T Bank in Buffalo, N.Y., announced early Monday that it is buying Hudson City Bancorp in Paramus, N.J., for $3.7 billion in cash and stock.

Wall Street may have lost a lot of high-paying jobs following the economic crisis, but the New York region remains the place to be for bankers and financial executives seeking the big bucks.

BMO Harris Bank in Chicago has tapped a former SunTrust Banks (STI) executive to help steer its growth in the car-dealer lending business.

A Newport Beach, Calif., firm that buys problem loans from banks has struck its second deal in less than a week.

Large banks control the lion's share of the industry's total outstanding loans, but smaller banks are adding loans at a faster clip, according to a new report from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.

Sound Financial in Seattle is nearing its conversion a fully stock-owned company.

Seeking to increase its visibility in northern California, American River Bankshares (AMRB) in Sacramento has combined its three separately named banks under the name of its flagship brand.

BOK Financial in Tulsa, Okla., has acquired the Milestone Group, a boutique investment firm in Denver that caters to high-net-worth families in Colorado and Nebraska.

Sabal Financial, a Newport Beach, Calif., firm that invests in distressed assets, has acquired $69 million of loans from BB&T (BBT) of Winston-Salem, N.C.

Eight months after abandoning plans to sell itself, BankUnited (BKU) in Miami Lakes, Fla., is once again weighing offers from potential buyers, the New York Post reported Friday.

Shares of United Bancorp (UBCP) fell sharply Thursday after the Martins Ferry, Ohio, company announced that it was cutting its quarterly dividend in half in order to preserve capital.

Two years after converting the preferred shares it owned in Sterling Financial (STSA) into common stock, the Treasury Department is now looking to sell those shares on the open market.

In its ongoing effort to distinguish itself as a specialty lender, the Jacksonville, Fla., company announced Monday that it has established a golf lending division and that it has hired a team of lenders away from TCF Financial (TCB) to run it.