Brian Browdie

First BanCorp (FBP) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has scrapped a plan to swap common stock for a certain type of preferred stock.

A judge has ruled that Bank of America (BAC) does not have to defend itself against a lawsuit filed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on behalf of a failed bank.

First Farmers Financial in Converse, Ind., has agreed to buy most of Bank of Indiana.

Wells Fargo will pay $850,000 to settle a class-action that charges the company docked workers' pay for credit checks that did not result in loans.

Park Sterling Bank in Charlotte is battling to retrieve hundreds of thousands of dollars it refunded to a commercial customer who was defrauded by cyber thieves.

Fiserv, a fintech company, said Tuesday the combination gives users a unified view of borrowers' accounts and repayment risks and eliminates duplication between systems.

Union Bank in San Francisco has forged a deal that will give the company a further foothold on the East Coast.

Synovus Financial (SNV) is adding a director while losing two others. The $27 billion-asset company said Monday it has nominated Barry Storey to serve on its board.

Computer Service Professionals, Inc. has integrated its online banking software with Allied Payment Network's bill payment software.

3VR has upped the capabilities of a system the company says speeds analysis of security video.

The U.S. government did not wait too long to charge UBS and other mortgage underwriters with misleading investors in the run-up to the mortgage meltdown, a U.S. appeals court ruled Friday.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is rallying major holders of its stock to let Jamie Dimon keep his board chairmanship, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Coinbase, a startup that helps merchants accept the digital currency Bitcoin, apologized Friday for a lapse that resulted in customers' email addresses being publicly displayed.

The decision to charge for depositing a check via smartphone or tablet is likely to attract attention from other banks that now give away the service.

Thursday's cyberattack on Wells Fargo — the second the company has acknowledged in nine days — rendered its online and mobile banking inoperable for roughly six hours and continued a wave of denial of service attacks that also has hit JPMorgan Chase, BB&T, American Express and TD Bank in the past three weeks alone.

Regions Financial is sharpening its focus on small business. The Birmingham, Ala., company said late Thursday it has named Joe DiNicolantonio to head a new division that will offer banking, loans and advice to companies with sales up to $20 million.

Wells Fargo (WFC) on Thursday endured the second cyberattack the company has acknowledged in as many weeks.

Regulators have ordered Germany's Nordbank to improve anti-money-laundering safeguards at its New York branch.

Akcelerant announced Thursday that users of its financial account management platform can now check the status of loans that have been turned over to Grant & Weber for collection.

The $3.8 billion-asset Provident said Thursday it would pay $344 million in stock for Sterling, or about 1.3 shares of Provident stock for each Sterling share.