The Federal Reserve Board has released Metropolitan Bank Holding in New York from a January 2011 enforcement action.

In the FDIC's fourth quarter earnings report, the agency said loan buybacks fell to their lowest level in 5 years.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM:US) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS:US) were among 18 financial firms that agreed to stop participating in some surveys of analyst sentiment while New York investigates early access to the information.

The mortgage market has failed to shift from refinances to purchases as anticipated, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's latest weekly report on applications.

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Jamie Dimon, who built JPMorgan Chase & Co. into the world's biggest investment bank, said threats to its dominance may come from Beijing, Silicon Valley and a San Francisco-based rival with a stage-coach logo.

Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., (CUBI) plans to launch a virtual mobile banking platform in the third quarter of this year meant to make banking services more effortless for consumers.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. lender, is moving about 2,000 employees to offices in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center after a review of its real estate holdings, said a person with direct knowledge of the plan.

Southern Missouri Bancorp (SMBC) in Poplar Bluff, Mo., has agreed to buy Peoples Banking Company in Nixa, Mo.

First United (FUNC) in Oakland, Md., has received regulatory approval to catch up on interest payments for certain obligations.

An estimated 782 different collection agencies and creditors were sued in January under consumer statutes, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Bank of America Corp., the second-biggest U.S. lender, disclosed new probes into its mortgage and foreign-exchange businesses and boosted an estimate of potential legal losses by 20 percent to $6.1 billion.

Indiana University notified the Indiana attorney general’s office Tuesday of the potential exposure of personal data for approximately 146,00 students and recent graduates.

Debt buyer Encore Capital Group Inc. announced Tuesday the acquisitions of two companies in separate transactions in the United Kingdom and Latin America.

JPMorgan Chase laid out a careful plan for a better 2014 on Tuesday, as it tries to recover from a year spent paying for past mistakes. The bank is hoping that more expense cuts, improved technology and a greater reliance on wealth management will boost its future growth.

Morgan Stanley (MS) agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $275 million to resolve a probe into the sale of subprime mortgage-backed securities in 2007.

The fate of a measure that provided key tax relief to distressed homeowners is hanging in the balance as Congress debates a larger package of tax extenders.

The $3.2 billion-asset company said in a press release Tuesday that Michael Mayer had been the chief executive of 1st Financial Services in Hendersonville, N.C.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the lender whose legal and regulatory battles led to more than $23 billion in settlements in 2013, said Chief Compliance Officer Cindy Armine left to join another firm after a year on the job.

The National Fair Housing Alliance has filed a federal housing discrimination complaint against Deutsche Bank, alleging that the bank's foreclosed home management practices in mostly white populated areas are "strikingly better" than in African-American and Latino neighborhoods.