FAIRFAX, Va. – Apple FCU opened its 21st branch last week, inside the Winchester Medical Complex.

American Express (AXP), the largest credit-card issuer by spending, posted a 7% increase in first-quarter earnings as customers used their cards more and loan quality improved.

Bank of the West has created a private mortgage banking team that will largely cater to the bank's wealth management clients.

The Columbus, Ohio, bank's chief is happy about its first-quarter loan growth but says he is taking steps to ensure it doesn't get ahead of the economy.

Annapolis Bancorp (ANNB) has repaid half of the $8.2 million it owed the Treasury Department under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

S.Y. Bancorp (SYBT) in Louisville, Ky., posted record earnings in the first quarter even as its loan portfolio is beginning to show some cracks.

New York Community Bancorp Inc. on Wednesday posted a 76% first-quarter jump in mortgage banking revenue from a year earlier, as the bank saw robust growth in multi-family and commercial real estate loans.

PacWest Bancorp of Los Angeles said Wednesday that its first-quarter earnings fell 50% from a year earlier, to $5.3 million, due to largely to costs related to prepaying $225 million of fixed-rate term Federal Home Loan Bank advances.

Costs related to the integration of RBC Bank weighed down PNC's first-quarter earnings, but officials emphasized the acquisition's early — and long-term — benefits.

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reiterated support Wednesday for mortgage principal reductions at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

A surge in mortgage lending powered Cardinal Financial (CFNL) in McLean, Va., to a $7.7 million profit in the first quarter, an increase of nearly 47% from the same period in 2011.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it plans to follow the Justice Department's lead in pursuing fair lending violations when a policy has a disparate impact on a group of borrowers, unintentional or not.

A proxy battle at First Financial Northwest has gotten nasty after an activist investor labeled the company's leaders as "idiots" who are "deficient in judgment or lacking in character."

The pace of bank failures will slow considerably this year as the industry continues to recover from the real estate bust, according to the acting head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Banks are clamoring to lend to the most creditworthy small businesses, even as credit availability remains broadly limited.

Cathay General Bancorp of Los Angeles reported first-quarter earnings of $24.8 million, up roughly 38% from a year earlier, as credit quality improved

Citigroup said late Tuesday that it takes "seriously" the shareholder vote rejecting the bank's executive compensation plans, and that it will meet with some investors to understand their concerns.

We are in danger of a harmful proposal, which could be implemented this week. The proposal by the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service would require all banks located within the United States to report interest payments made to nonresident alien depositors. The IRS in turn would exchange this information with foreign governments for data about Americans in those countries.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc.'s (PNC) first-quarter profit fell 3.8% as the lender saw higher noninterest expense, masking a sharp decline in credit-loss provisions.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.'s (BK) first-quarter earnings fell 1% from a prior-year period that didn't have a credit loss provision as the trust bank's fee revenue also dipped.