Solera National Bancorp in Lakewood, Colo., has hired a veteran risk manager as its chief credit officer.

The U.K. banking giant has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle U.S. money-laundering charges. Unsettled is whether global banks have the controls to avoid a repeat.

Amerasia Bank in New York has agreed to buy a troubled community bank in Florida. The $291 million-asset bank will acquire Great Eastern Bank of Florida, says Jimmy Tsai, Amerasia's chief operating officer.

Bob Kottler explains how the Louisiana company has been able to book small business loans while other banks struggle to grow.

Fifth Third Bank is the latest bank to announce that it would halt evictions during the holiday season.

HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's largest bank, agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle U.S. probes of money laundering in the largest such accord ever.

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The Treasury Department is scheduled on Tuesday to auction warrants to purchase 1.2 million shares of common stock in M&T Bank.

MANSFIELD, Texas – Texas trust CU opened its tenth branch here yesterday, its second new branch of the year.

DENVER – Bellco CU opened its newest metro Denver branch yesterday in Sloan’s Lake and is opening an additional branch next Monday in Englewood.

Prosperity Bancshares (PB) in Houston has agreed to buy Coppermark Bancshares in Oklahoma City, Okla., for $193.9 million in cash and stock.

The $5.8 billion-asset holding company of Chemical Bank in Midland, Mich., said Monday it has completed its $8.1 million purchase of 21 branches from Independent Bank (IBCP) in Ionia, Mich.

Banks will have adjustments to make in residential lending next year even though the housing recovery will continue, according to an economic forecast issued Monday.

The jump in Bank of America’s Basel III capital ratio in the third quarter reflected favorable moves in rates and credit spreads, not retained earnings.

Business activity in the banking sector accelerated slightly in October, rising for the fifth straight month, according to industry executives surveyed for American Banker's latest Index of Banking Activity.

The $1.2 billion-asset First Business said Monday that it sold 1.1 million shares of common stock at a price of $23 a share. First Business said recently that it would use proceeds from the sale to redeem some of its subordinated debt and to fund growth.

The $1.75 billion-asset company disclosed late last week that its purchase agreements with ValStone Partners, a private-equity firm in Michigan, had been terminated. Calls to Capitol (CBCRQ) and ValStone were not immediately returned.

Bob Kottler, an executive at Iberiabank, hopes the Consumer Bankers Association can help shape the agency’s rulemaking process in 2013.

In the first of the FDIC's 39 suits against bank executives, it has won a jury verdict declaring three former IndyMac executives breached their fiduciary duties by lending recklessly to home builders during the housing boom.

The Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a bill that would extend a crisis-era program that guarantees certain business accounts.