Brian Browdie

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty said Monday that a U.S. Bancorp unit is a lender to Huntingdon Life Sciences, a U.K.-based research facility that helps makers of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, cosmetics and other products assess the safety of their wares.

Cyberhacktivist group Anonymous has divulged bankers' online banking credentials in retaliation for the Justice Department's prosecution of hacker Aaron Swartz.

U.S. Bancorp's (USB) wealth management arm is adding advisors on Florida's Gulf Coast, mostly from large rivals.

Lending on offices and apartment buildings is expected to rise this year, further evidence that the commercial real estate continues to strengthen.

Barclays announced Sunday that two of its top executives will step down in the coming months. The London-based bank said that Chris Lucas, its chief financial officer, and Mark Harding, its general counsel, have agreed to remain in their jobs until the bank can identify their successors.

A unit of Palmetto Bancshares in Greenville, S.C., has shed an enforcement order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

An internal systems issue kept Bank of America's website down for 10 hours on Friday.

The $4.4 billion-asset company in Indiana, Pa., said Friday that it has named Fred Morelli Jr., a business advisor, and Frank Palermo Jr., a certified public accountant, directors.

Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to pay roughly $790 million to settle charges by regulators it manipulated a benchmark used to determine the rate at which banks loan to one another.

The Justice Department has added a former executive at Countrywide to a lawsuit that accuses Bank of America (BAC) of causing billions of dollars of losses to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

U.S. Bancorp has promoted longtime executive Chris Heman to market president for the state of Washington.

Northfield Bancorp (NFBK) in Woodbridge, N.J. has promoted a senior executive to become its president.

A Senate panel is said to be looking into warnings by a former trader at JPMorgan Chase months before his bets ballooned into a $6 billion loss for the company.

Robert Scully, a former top executive at Morgan Stanley, said he will leave the Bank of America board when his term expires.

TCF Financial in Wayzata, Minn., continues to take heat over efforts to comply with U.S. laws that govern transactions with Iran.

A once minor marketing relationship with Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has become one of the best moves ever by Baltimore's struggling First Mariner Bank.

Lender Processing Services (LPS) will pay $127 million to settle charges by 46 states that the company forged documents that were used to foreclose on homeowners.

Fees from mortgage banking and fewer troubled loans lifted First Mariner Bancorp in the fourth quarter. The $1.38 billion-asset company in Baltimore earned $1.6 million in the fourth quarter after losing $4 million a year earlier.

U.S. Bancorp will provide financing to a company that makes panels to convert the sun's energy into electricity.

Webster Bank is expanding its long-term relationship with technology provider FIS.