Last year, United Community flirted with the notion of exiting the Tarp and buying failed banks. Now management is talking about major cost cutting as it struggles to post sustainable profits.

The head of consumer payments at Google Inc., who was working on the company's mobile wallet, has resigned.

Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc.'s total loan portfolio shrunk $500 million last year, but it entered 2012 with big strides in commercial and industrial lending.

Banks are going to new lengths to burnish their image in the public eye, with Wells Fargo & Co. now taking its very own red carpet moment.

MB Financial Inc.'s fourth-quarter results fell shy of Wall Street's expectations, but things are still looking up for the Chicago company.

West Coast Bancorp in Lake Oswego, Ore., benefitted greatly in the fourth quarter after reversing its remaining deferred tax asset valuation allowance.

Banks begin turning to Facebook and other sites to size up customers. Regulations require that they proceed with caution.

The overall success of the small to mid-sized business (SMB) market remains pivotal to the full economic recovery.

Provident Financial Services Inc. reported that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 23% from a year earlier, to $14.9 million, because of an increase in net loans.

Hancock Holding Co.'s fourth-quarter results included hefty costs associated with buying Whitney Holding Corp.

Bank of America Corp.'s Chief Executive Friday reiterated he doesn't think the bank needs to make new acquisitions.

The Monrovia, Calif., prepaid card company plans to roll out the bank account with a traditional debit card later this year, chief executive Steve Streit told American Banker.

Discover Financial Services is anticipating a joint enforcement action from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over the marketing of its credit card payment protection products, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing posted late Thursday afternoon.

Alliance Data Systems Corp. said Thursday that it had renewed its agreement to provide private-label credit card services to retailer Reeds Jewelers.

Green Dot Corp.'s fourth-quarter net income rose 76% from a year earlier, to $14.0 million, the prepaid card company said on Thursday evening.

SVB Financial Group's fourth-quarter net income was more than double what it earned a year earlier, at $35.6 million.

AGs and liberal groups that have withheld support for settlement are hailing the new task force announced in the State of the Union.

Walter J. Owens, the head of TD Bank's corporate and specialty lending, has left the company as part of an internal restructuring, a bank spokeswoman said on Friday.

Improved asset quality helped Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. return to the black in 2011 despite declines in revenue.

Glacier Bancorp Inc. in Kalispell, Mont., reported higher earnings after it purged bad loans off its books.