Brian Browdie

Mortgage servicers are making a push to remind homeowners who may be facing foreclosure they have roughly 48 days to request independent reviews.

A unit of BNY Mellon (BK) will pay $210 million to settle charges that it let clients invest funds with disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff despite its own concerns that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme.

Lawsuits that charge Goldman Sachs (GD) and Deutsche Bank (DB) with misleading mortgage investors may proceed, a federal judge in Manhattan has ruled.

Centrify, a maker of technology that allows banks to control access to software and systems, has added another customer.

The Supreme Court will decide whether merchants have the right to file class actions against Amex over which cards they must honor, or if arbitration clauses bar them from combining forces.

Consumers thinking of giving gift cards for the holidays may find a better bargain with store cards instead of those issued by banks and credit card companies.

American International Group (AIG), which stands to join a list of financial institutions deemed too big to fail, may be looking to unload its thrift unit.

Sun Bancorp in Vineland, N.J., has lured a veteran financial executive from Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., hiring Thomas R. Brugger as the CFO of its Sun National Bank subsidiary.

Fred Rowden, the chief executive of 1st Capital Bank in Monterey, Calif., has died.

Strike Debt, a movement that emerged from the Occupy Wall Street movement, announced plans Friday to stage a variety show and telethon to raise money to buy and cancel consumer debt.

The looming fiscal cliff has spurred Southside Bancshares of Tyler, Tex., to pay out more of its profits to shareholders.

A lawsuit that charges Bank of America’s (BAC) Merrill Lynch unit with misleading mortgage investors will be permitted to proceed, a federal judge in Manhattan has ruled.

The results from the latest J.D. Power report are a validation of Huntington's recent efforts to strengthen its small-business banking capabilities.

Regulators have ordered Foster Bankshares in Rolling Meadows, Ill., to refrain from paying shareholders and some creditors until the company proves that it can cover its operating expenses.

Becoming a Salvation Army holiday bell ringer in the Twin Cities may be easier than ever this year thanks to an assist from U.S. Bank.

A requirement by Valley National Bank in Tulsa that branch visitors remove anything covering their faces discriminates against Muslims, a civil liberties group says.

Union Bank said that Dana Edwards has joined the bank as chief technology officer while Meera Rao has joined as chief enterprise architect. Both came to the San Francisco bank from Bank of America.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial (PGC) in Bedminster, N.J., said that it doesn't expect any material losses tied to damage Hurricane Sandy inflicted on collateral properties.

Central Pacific said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had lifted a memorandum of understanding that obligated the $4.3 billion-asset company’s bank to maintain adequate capital, improve asset quality, provide sufficiently for loan losses and reduce classified assets.

The $302 billion-asset bank holding company based in McLean, Va., on Wednesday unveiled Capital One 360 as the new moniker for ING Direct, which Capital One bought in February for roughly $12 billion in cash and stock.