Chris Cumming

UMB Financial in Kansas City, Mo., posted solid quarterly results on loan growth and lower credit costs.

Discover Financial Services (DFS) beat its earnings expectations as its loans and grew and credit card delinquencies hit an all-time low.

Profit fell at BancorpSouth (BXS) in Tupelo, Miss., on declining net interest revenue and a hefty charge for legal expenses.

Georgetown Bank in Massachusetts has named Philip Bryan its chief operations officer. Bryan had been Georgetown's chief lending officer since joining the company in 2010.

Generations Bank in Seneca Falls, N.Y., plans to begin moving its critical banking applications to Compushare's C3 Cloud Computing platform.

The U.S. unit of the Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria kicked off a partnership with Christie's auction house by inviting private-bank customers to a special art exhibit in Dallas.

Amalgamated, a New York bank that manages assets for hundreds of pension plans, has secured a $139 million settlement from News Corporation in a suit it filed against the media giant on behalf of its clients.

RDM Corporation, a provider of remote deposit capture technology, has reached an agreement with U.S. Dataworks such that the latter will now resell its solution.

Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu missed its first-quarter earnings estimates as interest income fell.

Brenda Battey has been approved by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to be CFO of the company, it said Friday.

First Horizon National (FHN) in Memphis, Tenn., boosted profits by cutting costs in the first quarter.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has lifted a regulatory order from Macatawa Bank (MCBC) in Holland, Mich.

Carver Bancorp (CARV) in New York will recruit out-of-work public-housing residents to work in its branches through a program funded by Morgan Stanley (MS).

First Niagara Financial Group (FNFG) in Buffalo, N.Y., generated higher earnings in its first quarter since the ouster of its chief executive.

TCF Financial Corporation (TCB) in Wayzata, Minn., missed analysts' first-quarter estimates as a service charges and fees declined.

Taylor Capital Group's quarterly profit rose as revenue from its mortgage-banking operations remained strong.

CrossFirst Holdings in Leawood, Kan., has agreed to buy Tulsa National Bancshares in Oklahoma.

Fifth Third Bancorp's (FITB) quarterly profit declined slightly as improvements in credit quality nearly balanced declining interest income and fee income.

BB&T announced Thursday that it earned $210 million in the first quarter, compared with $431 million a year earlier, as it took a $281 million charge related to a tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.

Astoria Financial (AF) in Lake Success, N.Y., boosted its quarterly profit nearly 40% by reining in costs.