Provident Financial Holdings Inc. in Riverside, Calif., has hired 40 people from MetLife Inc. to run three new retail mortgage loan production offices in Northern California.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. has named one of its longtime executives to head up its trust company.

The FDIC has fined Stuart Voigt, a former Vikings player, and wants to ban him from banking after accusing him of improper dealings as chairman of a Minnesota bank.

TCF Financial Corp. in Wayzata, Minn., will soon offer its customers two options for paying overdraft fees on checking accounts.

Ally Financial is "on par" with any top-tier financial company — as long as analysts ignore the massive mortgage problems that made the lender lose $250 million in the fourth quarter, CEO Michael Carpenter says.

Bank marketing can be a bit, er, plain, but the Denver bank uses that reality to its advantage in an ad set to air Sunday in Colorado during the Super Bowl.

Despite reporting vastly improved credit quality, Independent Bank Corp. in Ionia, Mich., said Thursday that its losses in the fourth quarter doubled from the same period in 2010, to $9.8 million.

Huntington Bancshares Inc. has agreed to become Ohio State University's official consumer bank.

In what would be its first bank acquisition in seven years, Center Bancorp Inc. in Union, N.J., announced Thursday that it is buying the private-equity backed Saddle River Valley Bank in an all-cash deal.

Facebook generated about $557 million in revenue from its payments business last year, according to its S-1 filing.

Mortgage search tool shut down due to poor performance.

Oft-shunned in the M&A world, unlisted shares can lead to a bigger payoff for sellers and offer other advantages, explains investment banker Curtis Carpenter.

MasterCard does not explicitly require the use of a PIN with chip cards in the U.S., but its sliding scale of liability leaves little other choice.

Ally Financial Inc., the government-owned auto lender, swung to a $250 million net loss in the fourth quarter after taking a charge for regulatory penalties stemming from foreclosure matters.

MasterCard Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit tumbled as the credit card company took a sizable charge tied to pending litigation with U.S. merchants, although increased card spending helped it turn in core earnings ahead of expectations.

LONDON - HSBC Holdings PLC will shutter its fund administration business in the U.S. and shift it to Ireland in one of the global bank's latest moves to control costs and refocus its sprawling business, people familiar with the matter said this week.

PHILADELPHIA – American Heritage FCU will replace Citizens Bank in a local ShopRite store, after the bank decided to close the in-store branch.

SAN ANTONIO – Generations FCU has agreed to open five branches in select H.E. Butt Grocery Co. (H-E-B) stores throughout San Antonio and Bexar County.

A new study analyzing data from 15 years of state bank examinations has sparked a debate whether state regulators are not as tough as their federal counterparts.

With all the twists and backroom turns, government officials’ quest for a settlement and restitution from banks and mortgage servicers is starting to resemble a 1960s screwball comedy.