Brian Browdie

Customer data software meant to help banks provide personalized pricing and cross-sell financial products and services.

The nation's two largest banks are heading in opposite directions when it comes to customer satisfaction. Overall, banks are narrowing the gap with credit unions.

Several banks that were victims of a fall round of distributed denial of service attacks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, are likely to be hit again.

The $5.8 billion-asset holding company of Chemical Bank in Midland, Mich., said Monday it has completed its $8.1 million purchase of 21 branches from Independent Bank (IBCP) in Ionia, Mich.

Banks will have adjustments to make in residential lending next year even though the housing recovery will continue, according to an economic forecast issued Monday.

The $1.2 billion-asset First Business said Monday that it sold 1.1 million shares of common stock at a price of $23 a share. First Business said recently that it would use proceeds from the sale to redeem some of its subordinated debt and to fund growth.

Standard Chartered Bank will pay $327 million to settle charges that it violated U.S. law by laundering millions of dollars for banks and others in Iran and Sudan.

HSBC (HBC) is overhauling its unit that oversees compliance with laws designed to deter financial crime, and putting a former Treasury Department official in charge of it.

A Chicago pension fund wants the banks to pay for losses on mortgage-backed securities because of their trustee roles, but the banks argue any blame lies with others.

FirstAtlantic Bank in Jacksonville, Fla., has acquired a branch from Prosperity Bank in St. Augustine, Fla.

The biggest ATM security issues continue to revolve around physical tampering of the machines that enables card skimming and card and cash trapping, according to a global survey.

Fifth Third said it expects to recognize a pretax gain of roughly $140 million in the fourth quarter from the sale of 12.4 million shares of common stock in Vantiv.

Consumers can turn to a growing number of companies for financial products these days, but as Jamie Moldafsky sees it, everything comes back to relationship building—which Wells Fargo hopes will benefit from peer-to-peer payments and mobile technology.

A key investor in Webster Financial is reducing its stake in the Waterbury, Conn., company.

DCB Financial Corp. (DCBF) said Thursday it completed a sale of common stock to existing shareholders and local investors that netted $13.2 million in funds.

The Federal Reserve Board has terminated enforcement actions against Anadarko Bank & Trust in Oklahoma and Hanmi Financial in Los Angeles.

HSBC (HBC) may be about to pay $1.8 billion to settle charges the bank served as a gateway for money laundering.

Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, Bank of America, PNC, SunTrust and Citigroup all said this week they plan to halt until after New Year's evictions of borrowers whose homes have been foreclosed on for loans the banks' own.

Federal securities regulators have charged a Wells Fargo (WFC) investment banker with fostering an insider-trading scheme that netted at least $11 million.

Discover Financial Services said that its board has approved a change in the company’s fiscal yearend from Nov. 30 to Dec. 31 of each year.