IberiaBank Corp. in Lafayette, La., is eyeing expansion in Birmingham and other metropolitan markets in Alabama.

The consumer banking giant has stopped taking individuals to court over unpaid credit card balances in at least five states. The question is why.

Tom Grady, tapped last year as Florida's banking commissioner, want to cuts regulatory costs to help state's survivors recover.

All banks are affected by more stringent regulation, but it is the less-healthy ones that are most likely to throw in the towel because of it.

KeyCorp returns to the M&A trail for first time in years in agreeing to buy 37 branches in western New York. The seller, First Niagara, is still trying to digest what it already has in the works.

New Jersey has a long and rich history of nurturing inventions and inventors. The works of Edison, Einstein and Roebling continue to improve our lives.

Banks' risk managers are growing more concerned about the stability of the student loan market and fear that delinquencies on most types of consumer loans will increase in the coming months, according to a FICO survey.

Big banks may not be very happy about the newly-empowered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but they're hoping to leave the unpleasant task of challenging the new agency to their nonbank competitors.

Already an active lender in the recreational vehicle and lawn and garden industries, TCF Financial Corp. is now looking to make a big splash in the water sports business.

AlixPartners is at it again, adding Frank Sui as a managing director in its financial services practices. It's the second such hire the business advisory firm has made in the last six weeks.

Richard Cordray told a group of reporters Thursday that businesses should support the bureau's mission, and said he plans to work with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to ensure the agency is mindful of industry concerns as well.

To those of us with checking accounts, prepaid cards will never make sense. We're not used to seeing fees displayed and charged so prominently.

Citigroup Inc. appears to have abandoned its plan to sell its consumer lending unit until the economy improves and it can fetch a better price for it, according to Fitch Ratings Inc.

VeriFone announced Thursday that Eastern Mountain Sports, an outdoor equipment retailer, is testing the terminal maker's GlobalBay iPad sleeve at four of its stores.

A higher loan-loss provision and a drop in interest income drove VSB Bancorp Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings down 66%, to $162,668, from a year earlier.

Under orders to divest branches as a condition of its pending deal with HSBC Bank USA, First Niagara Financial Group Inc. in Buffalo announced early Thursday that it is selling more than three-dozen western New York branches to one of its closest competitors.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Empower FCU said it sold its branch in nearby Big Flats, N.Y., to Elmira Savings Bank.

NEWARK, Del. – Community Powered FCU will break ground on a new headquarters and retail branch project later this month on Route 40 in Bear.

While all eyes were on Bank of America's stock price last year, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch retirement and employee financial benefit plan businesses quietly thrived by pulling in $19 billion of new financial benefit plan assets.

The re-emergence of a sharp seasonal dip in payment rates late last year was mirrored by a jump in credit card borrowing. The percentage of balances that cardholders pay off each month is still higher than during the mortgage boom, however, when large numbers of borrowers drew on home equity to pay other debts.