F.N.B. in Pittsburgh has agreed to buy five branches from Bank of America in eastern Pennsylvania.

More than 71 million consumers had an auto loan in the first quarter, an increase from a year earlier and the largest growth since the economic downturn, according to a new report.

We asked bank chief financial officers what advice they would give their younger selves. Here is what they wish they'd known when they started their careers.

U.S. banks rebounded in the first quarter as earnings rose 6.9% from a year earlier, to $39.8 billion, and nearly two-thirds of institutions reported higher profits from a year earlier, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Wednesday.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a Florida collection agency for allegedly trying to collect unverified and non-existent debts.

Valley National Bancorp in Wayne, N.J., has agreed to buy CNLBancshares in Orlando, Fla.

MutualFirst Financial in Muncie, Ind., is facing pressure from an activist investor to explore a potential sale, even after the bank earlier this year agreed to implement a demand made by the same activist.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officially delayed issuing new debt collection rules until at least December, after originally expecting “pre-rule activities” to last through this past April.

A small Austin, Texas, bank, formerly called Libertad, had to abandon its initial plan to target unbanked Hispanics. But it has made the most of its second chance by finding a niche in lending to real estate investors. Now it's looking to diversify.

The Sunshine State is once again outgrowing the rest of the country and some of its community banks are eager to become the state’s next flagship. Florida has changed a lot since the old Barnett Bank held that title, and so has banking. But now its thriving homegrown contenders aim to reshape the fragmented banking landscape, which is dominated by out-of-state rivals.

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is increasingly brandishing a post-crisis tool allowing it to label activities "abusive," but whether financial services firms are closer to understanding the term is still up for debate.

First BanCorp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has agreed to sell about $200 million in nonperforming loans and other assets to improve credit quality.

The Dallas investment group completed its tender offer for Mechanics Bank last month, culminating a three-year hunt for a target to serve as the base of its roll-up strategy. With that piece in place, the company is looking to buy other banks in northern California

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning to issue rules to supervise large installment and vehicle title lenders, according to a recent report.

State Bank Financial in Atlanta reached an agreement to end its loss-share agreements for 12 failed banks that it acquired during the financial crisis.

At a time when regulators, prosecutors and the media have stepped up their scrutiny of subprime auto lending, some in the industry have changed their definitions of key terms in ways that downplay the risks involved.

In the wake of recent court rulings upholding homeowners associations' "super lien" status in foreclosures, mortgage vendors have flooded the market with products to help servicers and investors manage this long-standing threat.

Toronto-Dominion Bank, Canada's second-largest lender by assets, agreed to buy Nordstrom's Visa and private-label credit-card portfolio in the U.S. as it expands purchases in North American consumer credit.