Shares of UMB Financial (UMBF) hit a 52-week high Tuesday after the Kansas City, Mo., company reported a record $46.4 million profit in the first quarter, a 50% increase from the same period last year.

Synovus Financial (SNV) is coming off its most profitable quarter in four years and now everyone wants to know when the Columbus, Ga., company plans to repay the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

A program unveiled by two federal agencies Tuesday will allow banks to provide more than just loans to aspiring small-business owners.

BOK Financial (BOKF) in Tulsa, Okla., reported first quarter earnings of $83.6 million, up from 29% from a year earlier, as credit costs lowered and mortgage banking revenues soared.

Aided by strong loan growth, Signature Bank (SBNY) in New York reported first-quarter net income of $42.4 million, up more than 22% from a year earlier.

The acquisition would add 15 branches and deepen penetration in key markets.

Goldman Sachs shareholders will decide next month whether to reelect board member James A. Johnson, a former CEO of Fannie Mae, who is facing vocal opposition from a large mutual fund investor.

Is it fair to give a 30% haircut to borrowers who put zero down, and not to their neighbors who put 30% down? Or to distribute taxpayer funds to five states with half the country's negative equity?

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The children and teens on the Escambia 4-H County Council voted yesterday to sell the 240 acres at their 4-H Center to Navy FCU, clearing the decks for a major expansion of the credit union’s giant call center campus here.

Women expect you to walk the talk. If you say, "we care about and believe in women," yet all of your management is men, then, Houston, you have a problem.

Regions Financial Corp.'s (RF) first-quarter earnings more than doubled as the regional lender set aside less to cover loan losses and saw noninterest income edge up.

Synovus Financial Corp. (SNV) swung to a profit in the first quarter, extending the regional lender's streak of quarterly profits as revenue easily topped expectations.

Roberto Herencia, chairman of First Bancorp in Puerto Rico and an ex-CEO of Banco Popular North America, is the investment group's leader.

Almost three months after spooking investors with plans to restate 2010 and most of 2011, Enterprise Financial Services in St. Louis might be working its way back into their good graces.

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Zions Bancorporation's (ZION) repayment of half of its funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program tamped down earnings in the first quarter, but its core results still handily beat expectations.

Eagle Bancorp (EGBN) originated and sold off more residential mortgages in the first-quarter, which helped boost profits by about 49%, to $7.6 million, from a year earlier.

Solid revenue growth and continued improvement in credit quality led Banner Corporation (BANR) in Walla Walla, Wash., to its most profitable quarter in at least five years.

The executives of United Western Bank filed a motion for summary judgment that also spares no criticism of how the OTS handled the Denver thrift's failure in early 2011. The motion claims that the now-defunct regulator closed the thrift despite evidence that management had just raised $200 million in life-saving capital.