Chris Cumming

Fox Chase Bancorp in Hatboro, Pa., has won permission to ditch its federal charter.

The chief operating officer of CCFNB Bancorp in Bloomsburg, Pa., plans to retire.

The monitor of the national mortgage settlement plans to force the five largest servicers to fix billing and communications problems that have plagued homeowners and been the subject of tens of thousands of complaints.

Franklin Synergy Bank in Franklin, Tenn., is planning to raise money from institutional investors as a prelude to a public offering.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has hired the head of a nonprofit that promotes business in developing countries to lead its charitable programs.

First Community Financial Partners in Joliet, Ill., has repurchased a large chunk of shares from private investors that acquired the shares from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Carrollton Bancorp's main private-equity backer, Eric Hovde, the president and chief executive of the Hovde Private Equity Advisors, is joining its board.

Hanmi Financial (HAFC) in Los Angeles has hired a handful of banking executives from rival Korean-American lender BBCN Bank (BBCN).

Two of the oldest nonprofit credit counselors plan to merge, in a move that would create the second-largest such organization in the U.S.

The $785 million-asset Georgia Commerce has agreed to buy Brookhaven Bank, the two companies announced Tuesday. The price was not disclosed.

Capital One (COF) will pay nearly $3 million to settle discrimination charges against a bank it bought four years ago.

The credit bureau Equifax has joined with a mobile security firm to improve the two companies' fraud protection systems.

The $18 billion-asset company said late Tuesday it has acquired certain assets and liabilities from Surety Financial Services in Sherman Oaks, Calif. The companies did not disclose the terms or specify the assets that were transferred.

The $2 billion-asset company said Tuesday that it had fully redeemed the $20.5 million in preferred shares issued through the program. Park Sterling funded the redemption with a payment from its bank.

James Mackey will become executive vice president and CFO of the government-sponsored enterprise the week of Nov. 11, Freddie announced Monday.

The Federal Reserve Board has ordered Trinity Capital Corp. in Los Alamos, N.M., to improve its capital position.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is launching a new program called Mission Main Street Grants to support small businesses, with help from Google.

A federal court has ruled that state regulators have the authority over online lenders that operate from Native American land.

Bank of America has begun rolling out its new "express" banking centers, which combine on-site and remote tellers.

National Bank Holdings Corp., a company formed in 2009 to buy failed banks, is planning to contract its branch network.