Senate Banking Committee leaders reiterated their optimism Wednesday for forging a bipartisan housing finance reform plan, but offered little additional detail on when legislation will emerge.

Small-business loan approval rates by both large and small banks jumped in November, rebounding from an October lull in which the government shutdown caused a backlog in applications.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will pay $100 million to state and federal regulators to settle allegations that it violated sanctions on doing business with Iran, Sudan, Myanmar and Cuba.

There may well be too many banks in the United States. That’s a problem for stock investors and CEOs of publicly traded banks to address, not policymakers.

Buyers in Texas show little interest in strugglers like Omnibank in Houston, leaving the door open for a buyer like Bank of the Ozarks from Arkansas that knows how to acquire and fix broken banks.

JPMorgan Chase's recently published patent application for a free online payment system offers some hints about the bank's future payment plans.

The Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase framed his bank's record-setting $13 billion settlement as a business decision — but acknowledged that he now has work to do to repair ties with Washington.

Despite widespread concerns at community banks, industry experts assert that regularly testing can help bankers with strategic planning.

IberiaBank Corp. (IBKC) said its president and chief executive has set up a plan to sell up to 11% of his stock in the Lafayette, La., company.

Citigroup's (NYSE:C) board has added Duncan Hennes, a veteran financial executive and a co-founder of consulting firm Promontory Financial Group, as an independent director.

Even before Dodd-Frank, federal regulations had grown exponentially. The sheer quantity of the regulations is bad enough, but the complexity often confuses banks and their customers and increases compliance costs.

The $18.4 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it will shutter 37 branches inside Chicago-area Jewel-Osco stores and a branch in downtown Minneapolis.

The peer-to-peer lender, which has both threatened banks' traditional businesses and cultivated Wall Street ties, is now selling its loans to community banks and working with them to offer personal loans as a counter to big banks' dominance in credit cards.

The $298 billion-asset company will continue with its recent pattern of opening smaller branches in desired markets and closing some larger, traditional branches, resulting in roughly 25 net closures, PNC spokesman Fred Solomon said Wednesday.

EverBank Financial (EVER) in Jacksonville, Fla., has agreed to pay the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $48 million in connection with its purchase of the failed Bank of Florida in May 2010.

SunTrust Banks (STI) has agreed to sell RidgeWorth Capital Management, its asset management business, for $245 million.

Ten years from now, today's brick-and-mortar banks, and digital banking services, will look like quaint vestiges of a bygone era.

MetroCorp (MCBI) in Houston hired a consultant to scout possible Chinese suitors before agreeing to sell to East West Bancorp (EWBC) in Los Angeles.

The San Mateo, Calif., company plans to launch a new online lending platform, a sign of increasing competition among consumer-debt-consolidation lenders.

Three collection companies used forged Wells Fargo (WFC) and U.S. Bank (USB) documents to recoup debts from defaulted borrowers, according to a complaint filed by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers.