2011 Most Powerful Women in Banking festivities kicked off Wednesday night at the Gansevoort Park Avenue Hotel in New York.

Capital rules, too big to fail, the European crisis and other wild cards are holding back deals, Jonathan Pruzan says. But a burst of mergers among midsize banks is possible.

The president of Home Federal Bank in Sioux Falls, S.D., has stepped down after less than a year on the job.

For the vast majority of Americans, the role of the bank is to be there when the customer wants it to be there. Like the water company. Like the electric company.

A private-equity backed North Carolina holding company is acquiring the remaining shares of VantageSouth Bank that it does not already own and merging the bank with its other subsidiary.

Steve Jobs spent his career more focused on personal computing than on personal banking, but under him Apple Computer still left a lasting mark on the world of finance.

Pittsburgh bank adds $250 million over 10 years to its early childhood education program, which used Big Bird &Co. to break ice with skeptical parents.

Capital One Financial Corp. on Wednesday defended its credit card business amid critics' concerns that the bank is too focused on offering expensive plastic to the nation's riskiest borrowers.

SCRANTON, Penn. – Members of Tobyhanna FCU brought their postcard flashlight mailing to the branch to decode a prize for a chance to win loan-related discounts, a $10,000 shopping spree, or a 32” flat screen TV as part of the grand opening of the credit union’s new branch and administrative offices.

Consumer delinquencies continued to climb in the second quarter with nine of 11 loan categories showing increases, according to a study released Wednesday by the American Bankers Association.

Several large banks are starting to charge customers a fee each month they use a debit card for purchases. The worst offender is Bank of America, which is implementing a $5 monthly fee.

Sen. Richard Durbin, who has loudly criticized banks for raising debit-card fees, accused Bank of America Corp. directly this week of attempting to drive customers toward credit cards.

Bank of America this week made the decision to exit retail lending in six low volume states: Alabama, Alaska, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Data released Wednesday by the U.S. Small Business Administration shows that banks are willing to finance small businesses — as long as the loans are backed by a government guarantee.

With M&A and the economy at a standstill, bank executives will have a hard time explaining how they can grow when they report third-quarter results.

A number of struggling homeowners were helped by an Obama administration loan modification program in August, but the program has helped far fewer people than initially forecast.

Bryan McDonald will become president and chief executive of Whidbey Island Bank in Coupeville, Wash., on Jan. 1.

Huntington Bancshares Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, and Security California Bancorp of Riverside, Calif., will add offices in the coming months.

Bank executive makes good on promise to repel off building for a charitable cause.

Patriot Financial has money to invest, but before community bank executives pick up the phone to request a meeting they should know what the private-equity firm wants and doesn't want.