Listings for new homes fell 1.1% in April, the first year-over-year drop since August 2014, according to the real estate brokerage Redfin.

HomeStreet in Seattle has raised $65 million from issuing senior debt. The $4.8 billion-asset company said in a press release Friday that the proceeds from the offering with support growth and other general corporate purposes.

Flagship Community Bank in Florida is facing pressure from its biggest shareholder to sell itself, either for cash or stock in a publicly held buyer. Management, however, believes the bank will fetch a better price if given time to improve profitability.

Scale is the goal of many banks dealing with compliance costs and revenue constraints. Success requires investing in management and systems without sacrificing culture.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton appears likely to embrace a recent plan to merge Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a single government corporation if she wins the White House.

Discover's new consumer credit information product provides FICO scores and a summary of the data that determines that score.

National Commerce in Birmingham, Ala., has issued $25 million in subordinated debt.

Banks and nonbanks should accept that more fintech regulation is inevitable, but how far regulators go will depend in part on how well companies demonstrate they are managing risk.

One of the country's largest online lenders is cutting jobs and shelving expansion plans in response to investors' rapid retreat from the beleaguered sector.

While the CFPB has not set specific deadlines to issue proposals on debt collection, analysts expect so-called pre-rulemaking activities - typically a report or a small-business review panel - to occur this summer.

State Bank in Atlanta convinced a jittery seller to work out a deal by promising to do an all-cash purchase if its own stock faltered.

A new economic report showed little movement in consumer spending in March, despite lower gasoline prices, growth in real disposable income and a labor market showing steady improvement.

TD Bank announced Thursday that is doing away with the Penny Arcade coin-counting machines that are stationed in more than 1,000 of its branches along the East Coast.

Severn Bancorp in Annapolis, Md., has partially redeemed outstanding shares tied to the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

California Bank of Commerce in Lafayette has raised $9 million to help it exit the Small Business Lending Fund.

As Columbia Law School professor Robert Jackson noted in an op-ed on Thursday, there needs to be a source of real competition for the credit-card pushers, namely online marketplace lenders, so consumers with below-average credit scores can have access to credit at somewhat reasonable rates.

Complaints against collection agencies have dropped nearly 20% in two years and debt collectors in 2015 earned a higher complaint resolution rate than the all-industry rate, according to the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

First Citizens BancShares in Raleigh, N.C., has agreed to buy Cordia Bancorp in Midlothian, Va.

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TD Bank announced Thursday that it is doing away with the Penny Arcade coin-counting machines that are stationed in more than 1,000 of its branches along the East Coast.