Jackie Stewart is the executive editor of American Banker Magazine. Previously, she covered breaking news, community banks and mergers and acquisitions for American Banker before being named as the managing editor of the Credit Union Journal. After graduating from Northwestern University in 2006, Jackie taught for two years in the Bronx, N.Y., through Teach for America.
Regulators have ordered the banking unit of AB&T Financial Corp. in Gastonia, N.C., to improve its asset quality and evaluate its allowance for loan losses.
Discover Financial Services will invest $10 million over the next five years to pay for high school students to take personal finance courses.
U.S. Bank has produced four new security awareness videos that feature a fictional character, Tami, sharing her personal information a bit too freely.
Chino Commercial Bancorp in California has extended its stock offering for the second time because of a high level of interest.
HomeStreet Inc. in Seattle has hired more than 160 former MetLife Inc. mortgage professionals across three Pacific Northwest states.
BBCN Bancorp, the Los Angeles company formed after Center Financial and Nara Bancorp merged, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter earnings fell 42% from the same period a year earlier due primarily to expenses related to the merger.
CoVantage Credit Union will offer its members mobile banking services from Tyfone.
Five banks have selected Jack Henry & Associates' SilverLake core processing system in the last eight months, the vendor said Tuesday.
Union Square Ventures — ground floor investors in Twitter and Foursquare — is helping the payments company launch consumer facing technologies, but fintech firm Village Ventures is adding funding to the company's FiSync products, which provide integrations to banks.
Improved credit quality and lower expenses helped offset declines in fees at Eastern Virginia Bankshares as the Tappahannock company returned to the black in 2011.
Bank of Hawaii Corp. in Honolulu will close three traditional branches and open three others located within supermarkets this year.
Union First Market Bankshares Corp. in Richmond, Va., has agreed to repurchase more than 335,000 shares of its common stock that a director used to secure a loan.
F&M Bank, of Iowa, would get 2 branches in Galeburg, Ill., with $66 million of deposits.
State Bank Financial Corp.'s shares slid Monday after the Atlanta company reported a lower-than-expected fourth-quarter profit.
Experian now offers a collections filtering product called FirstSweep.
BBVA Compass has launched a redesigned website, one of several technology upgrades planned for this year.
Comedian and actor George Lopez this week became the latest celebrity to embrace the prepaid card business, through an endorsement deal with Mango Financial Inc.
Driven by strong growth in both interest and fee income, Territorial Bancorp Inc. in Honolulu reported a 6% increase in its fourth-quarter earnings, to $3.4 million.
Buoyed by higher revenue from processing and services, Fiserv reported fourth-quarter net income of $143 million.
Want to jump to another bank that will pay you more? It's easier than you think for employers to prevent that, a business professor explains.
