Expenses weighed down Old Line Bancshares (OLBK) in the first quarter. Earnings at the $869 million-asset company in Bowie, Md., fell 27.8% from a year earlier, to $1.3 million, or 19 cents per share.

Accelerate consumer adoption, refine the value proposition, align perception with values and begin planning for the next round.

The SEC is still working on rules for compensation clawbacks, but some banks have adopted stricter policies in response to pressure from activist shareholders like the New York City comptroller's office.

Eight months of banks being under steady, near-constant attack have taught observers a thing or two about what banks can expect going forward.

Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) has hired Citigroup (NYSE: C) executive Maria Veltre as its new chief marketing officer.

Investors Bancorp (ISBC) in Short Hills, N.J., reported as rise in quarterly profit as its loan portfolio grew.

With Washington on the consumer protection warpath, Discover's latest marketing pitch plays up the flexible and generous terms of its new flagship product, the "it" card.

The technology fails to deliver a substantial difference in convenience for customers, resembling the struggles faced by the mobile payments industry.

Too few of the small banks willing to sell have businesses worth buying, bank CEOs said during the recent round of earnings calls.

Providers should link their products and services to information and tools that are relevant, timely, actionable and ongoing.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – CO-OP Financial Services announced this morning it is rebranding the CU Service Centers shared branch network and its “swirl” logo and signage it acquired in a 2012 merger with Financial Service Centers Cooperative with the CO-OP Shared Branch signage over the next two years.

Median pay for CEOs at banks with less than $20 billion of assets was about a tenth of the median amount for bosses at banks with more than $100 billion of assets in American Banker's 2013 compensation survey. Growth in pay from 2011 was about even between the two groups, however. Here are some of the most richly rewarded chiefs among the smaller banks. Ratings of the banks' pay practices, on a scale from A to F, are provided by GMI Ratings, a governance watchdog. Figures are for 2012; GMI assessments are as of April 29.

CEO pay rose a median 11% in 2012 among a group of 149 banks. Here are some of the most highly paid bank bosses of the year. Ratings of the banks' pay practices, on a scale from A to F, are provided by GMI Ratings, a governance watchdog. Figures are for 2012; GMI assessments are as of April 29.

CORINTH, N.Y. – Hudson River Community CU has moved into a new, $3-million operations center here.

Heartland Financial USA (HTLF) in Dubuque, Iowa, reported lower quarterly earnings as compensation expenses rose.

Capitol Federal Financial in Topeka, Kan., reported lower quarterly profit as its interest income fell and compensation costs rose.

Business Bancshares in St. Louis has exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Higher interest income and wider margins lifted BNC Bancorp (BNCN) in the first quarter.

Two executives of the former Southern Community Financial in North Carolina claim that they were "unceremoniously fired" because they refused to surrender their severance deals before Capital Bank bought their company.

We've profiled six bankers who raise the act of connecting with their communities to an art form. They are from different institutions in different parts of the country, and each has a different story.