Home BancShares in Conway, Ark., has promoted John "Stephen" Tipton to chief operating officer, after the position had been vacant for about five years.

The North Carolina regional bank is placing a big bet that targeting Pennsylvania's high earners will offset the state's reputation for having slower-than-average growth.

Simmons First National in Pine Bluff, Ark., has promoted several executives, as David Bartlett announced his plans to retire as president and chief banking officer.

Bank of New York Mellon has agreed to pay $14.8 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it used its internship program to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Activist investor Joseph Stilwell is demanding that Carroll Bancorp in Sykesville, Md., pick up the pace on stock buybacks.

Target Corp. reached a settlement with Visa Inc. over a hacker attack that struck the chain during the 2013 holiday season and exposed millions of customers' personal information.

Regent Bank in Davie, Fla., has promoted Dawn Calder to the newly created position of chief credit officer.

The mortgage delinquency rate - the rate of borrowers 60 days or more delinquent on their mortgages - continued its fast decline, falling to 2.72% in the second quarter ended June 30, according to TransUnion.

Once again the markets have fallen in love with a group of young, aggressive and not very regulated lenders.

City officials in Trenton, N.J. have hired a collection agency to pursue more than $2.9 million in outstanding municipal court fines.

Bitcoin was built on the sort of open-source ethos that has driven generations of geeks. But the same principles it celebrates—a decentralized network of contributors, a transparent code base—are allowing competitors to flourish. The bitcoin faithful aren't so sure that's a good thing.

The recapitalization will allow City National Bank to continue as a certified Community Development Financial Institution, the bank said.

Critics of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data collection haven't bothered to learn the basic facts about the data the regulator collects before veering off into black helicopter paranoia.

Two research associations have filed a joint motion to intervene in a court case against new telephone rules issued by the Federal Communications Commission.

Rather than simply considering whether a prospective borrower's business contributes to climate change, banks are slowly turning their attention to making sure borrowers in a variety of industries account for how climate change could affect them.

The London-based bank payment network Earthport is expanding its application of distributed ledger technology (a system best known for its use with Bitcoin) to enable real-time cross-border payments and potentially reduce risk.

The FTC announced that judges for its Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back contest selected a first place winner for the $25,000 cash prize for building a mobile app that blocks and forwards robocalls to a crowd-sourced honeypot.

The North Carolina company had made it clear it would pursue more acquisitions after closing its purchase of the $19 billion-asset Susquehanna Bancshares earlier this year.

First National Bank of Pana in Illinois has agreed to buy The State Bank of Blue Mound in Illinois.

New Supplemental Performance Metric should encourage lenders serve lower credit scores borrowers.