Bank stocks are up 13% this year, despite the recent swoon tied to JPMorgan Chase's trading snafu. That appreciation is pushing dividend yields down, leading some to wonder if banks will eventually raise quarterly payouts or hold onto the capital.

National Bank Holdings in Boston is shifting its headquarters to Denver following a string of bank acquisitions in Colorado and nearby states.

Put aside the bellyaching about the disappointing deals market. Focus instead on creative deals, nontraditional acquisitions and the nuances of what can be done within current regulations and economic realities, experts will advise at American Banker's M&A conference Monday and Tuesday.

A $2.3 billion loan temporarily pushed Emigrant's total assets over $15 billion. Because it was briefly above that threshold, the bank will be subject to a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that prevents banks from counting trust preferred securities as part of their Tier 1 capital. Emigrant is asking Congress for an exemption.

Now that a proposal to give credit unions more business lending power has been tabled, banks and credit unions have resumed their long-running battle over taxes.

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NCUA said this morning it has barred the former CEOs of U.S. Central FCU and Members United Corporate FCU from working for or with any corporate credit union for their roles in two of the biggest credit union failures.

BankTennessee in Collierville has been released from a two-year-old enforcement order after it improved its capital ratios and sharply reduced its concentration of commercial real estate and construction loans.

More than two-dozen have already announced that would stop filing reports with the regulator and many more could follow as they aim to cut costs.

The new director, James McDonough, once served as the CEO for Abington Bancorp, a Boston-area company that was sold in 2004.

Personal financial management software must deliver real value to banks, not just consumers. Just saying PFM increases customer loyalty doesn't cut it. The value proposition has to be more attractive given the revenue pressures banks face today.

Editor's Note, July 25, 2012: This and other BankThink opinion columns written by Joel Sucher bearing this note, published between October 2011 and June 2012, mentioned the law firm of Stephen J. Baum, Litton Loan Servicing, or both. The columns should have disclosed that Baum’s firm, working on behalf of Litton, had attempted to foreclose on the writer’s property in 2009. American Banker's editors were unaware of this history at the time the columns were published.

Shareholders voted in Regions Financial's favor on say on pay and other matters, but some investors pressed for more cost cuts at the Alabama bank like jettisoning the corporate jet.

PORTLAND, Ore. – OnPoint Community CU is opening a new branch inside a Safeway supermarket in Rose City on May 30.

Avoid the bluster and the defensiveness, and focus on communication and steps to improve the bank, veterans of activist investor fights like John Palmer of PL Capital advise.

Porter Bancorp's shareholders have granted the struggling company more flexibility to raise capital to meet the demands of regulators.

Shareholders also recommended that the CEO and chairman jobs, now held by Beth Mooney, be split.

Capitol City Bank, a minority-owned bank in Atlanta that is under orders from its regulators to add fresh capital, is getting a shot in the arm from SunTrust Banks (STI).

About half the consumers using U.S. Bancorp's prepaid card already have a relationship with the bank, according to a prepaid executive there.

U.S. Bancorp is raising some of its overdraft fees to $35 per transaction, in the latest example of banks changing the ways that they charge checking account customers.