Improved credit quality and lower expenses helped offset declines in fees at Eastern Virginia Bankshares as the Tappahannock company returned to the black in 2011.

Although insurance conglomerate MetLife failed to unload its residential lending division, it has found a buyer for its warehouse business, according to industry officials close to the matter.

A small Minnesota bank is in hot water with its regulators after suffering steep losses on loans to some high-profile business executives.

Suffolk Bancorp in Riverhead, N.Y., has filled its vacant chief financial officer position by hiring from a former competitor.

DocX, a now-shut unit of Lender Processing Services, was charged in Missouri with forgery and making a false declaration related to mortgage documents it processed.

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Bank of Hawaii Corp. in Honolulu will close three traditional branches and open three others located within supermarkets this year.

Union First Market Bankshares Corp. in Richmond, Va., has agreed to repurchase more than 335,000 shares of its common stock that a director used to secure a loan.

The Federal Reserve Board could vote as early as Wednesday on Capital One's application to buy the online banking unit of ING Group.

After a yearlong effort to reach a multistate settlement with the top five mortgage servicers, state attorneys general and the firms involved finally appear to be close to a deal. But even before it is signed, there are already questions about how it will be implemented and future litigation risks.

Northway Financial Corp. in North Conway, N.H., said Monday that its fourth-quarter earnings fell 95% from the same period in 2010, to $67,000, after it set aside more money for potential losses and absorbed costs related to prepayment of its Federal Home Loan Bank advances.

JPMorgan Chase has tentatively agreed to pay $110 million over allegations that it charged customers excessive overdraft fees. Editors discuss the deal's importance to the other banks trying to settle overdraft claims.

DCB Financial Corp. in Lewis Center, Ohio, is planning to raise fresh capital by issuing more stock to existing and prospective shareholders.

F&M Bank, of Iowa, would get 2 branches in Galeburg, Ill., with $66 million of deposits.

Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU said this afternoon it has completed the merger of Virginia Corporate FCU, the latest corporate combination creating a corporate credit union with $4.1 billion in assets serving more than 800 credit unions.

Toney Weagley, the chief executive of Center Bancorp, unveiled an acquisition (Saddle River Valley Bank) in New Jersey last week. In an interview, he discusses growth in the northern part of the state and his ongoing search for more bank deals.

The sale of MBNA Europe, Bank of America Corp.'s U.K. and Ireland credit-card business, has been abandoned, a person familiar with the matter told Dow Jones Newswires Monday.

State Bank Financial Corp.'s shares slid Monday after the Atlanta company reported a lower-than-expected fourth-quarter profit.

Experian now offers a collections filtering product called FirstSweep.

Banks have faced onslaughts of litigation for several years over their credit card payment protection plans. But so far legal efforts to challenge or change the business have ended in dismissals or relatively small settlements.