Doral Financial in Puerto Rico is aiming its philanthropic work at women entrepreneurs to improve the fortunes of its community and its own.

Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin has settled fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with one of its 2009 quarterly reports.

The demise of PerkStreet, a startup that offered generous cash back on debit card purchases, illustrates how the business is changing. Interchange-funded rewards are out; merchant-funded perks are in.

The Canadian financial services technology developer Davis + Henderson closed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Harland Financial Solutions on Friday.

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is keeping busy on her August recess, talking housing finance reform and meeting with community bankers in her home state of North Dakota.

Nowhere has the piecemeal approach to postcrisis regulation been more apparent than with the CFPB's Qualified Mortgage rules and its aggressive stance on the fair-lending doctrine of disparate impact.

As the Isis mobile wallet comes out of pilot, it's important to note that not every emerging payments initiative makes it this far. But in experiments, any result can be valuable if the companies behind the test find something to learn from it.

Coastal Banking Co. (CBCO) in Beaufort, S.C., swung to a profit in the second quarter, aided mightily by an accounting reversal.

ERIE, Penn. – Erie FCU, which moved into the old Glenwood Elementary School in February, announced plans yesterday to spend $8 million to renovate or raze the old school building for a new headquarters.

Regulators have lifted an enforcement action against Eastern National Bank in Miami, according to a report.

Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin (ABCW) reported a large quarterly loss just days after announcing a plan to file for bankruptcy and recapitalize itself.

Enterprise Financial Services Corp. (EFSC) in St. Louis converted $20 million of trust-preferred securities to common stock, a move that will reduce its borrowing costs and improve its capital position.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Numerica CU plans to open a downtown Spokane branch this fall in a 3,000-square-foot space on the ground floor of the former First National Bank Building.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Achieva CU opened two branches here this month.

QUEENS, N.Y. – Qside FCU has purchased what it terms a “highly-visible” property as the location for its new headquarters and main branch in Queens Village.

The head of Wells Fargo's (WFC) personal and small-business insurance division died on Wednesday during a business trip to Minnesota.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp (PMBC) in Costa Mesa, Calif., has hired an executive from SVB Financial Group (SIVB) to lead a niche lending unit.

A federal judge raised the possibility that banks will have to repay billions of dollars to merchants, but legal experts say the court lacks the authority to enact such an order.

New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky discusses what he regards as right and wrong with financial services, the perils of taking on too many regulatory challenges and why so few top executives have faced the long arm of the law.

Cullen/Frost Bankers, led by Dick Evans, is breaking into oil-rich west Texas with a deal for WNB Bancshares. The seller was attractive partly because it resembled Cullen/Frost, Evans says.