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AppraiserLoft, the troubled appraisal management company, has suspended all new business and is preparing to shut down.

New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc., the parent of Lake Sunapee Bank, is entering the insurance business with its buy of McCrillis and Eldredge Insurance.

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Home mortgage lending will likely fall 25% next year to its lowest level since the late 1990s as the economic slump keeps demand low and banks begin running out of qualified borrowers to refinance, the Mortgage Bankers Association forecast Tuesday.

Three former United Commercial Bank executives misled investors by concealing at least $65 million in loan losses before the San Francisco-based lender collapsed in 2009, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.

Through a deal with money-transfer company UniTeller, Wells Fargo & Co. is expanding its remittance network by adding access points in Latin America and Asia, in an attempt to gain more money-transfer business from former Wachovia Corp. customers.

First Financial Corp.'s willingness to pay nearly double the tangible book value for Freestar Bank outside of Chicago is the most expensive small bank deal in months.

Banks must properly define and reward risk management in the future, rather than keep it segmented as they often do today. So advised a roundtable of experts asked by American Banker to gaze into the future as part of the celebration of our 175th anniversary.

No matter how rewarding a credit card is, redeeming points is typically a clunky processs. To date, the lone island of simplicity in this sea of confusion has been with JPMorgan Chase and American Express, which allow cardholders to use points as easily as dollars when shopping on Amazon.com. Now, Discover is joining the movement.

Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust Co. in Coral Gables, Fla., has added to its wealth management division by hiring two employees with ties to Lydian Private Bank, which was closed by regulators in August.

Banks are already in the thrall of a new business model even worse than the utility one: the industry is frozen solid in fear both of relentless credit risk and remorseless regulatory requirements.

At the BAI Retail Delivery Conference, executives at Extraco Banks in Temple, Texas share how using cash recyclers, modern teller software, check imaging and "intelligent" ATMs is improving customer service and branch efficiency.

The agencies responsible for implementing the restriction on proprietary trading have asked the public to respond to hundreds of questions over the next three months that will help shape the final version.

U.S. Bancorp said Tuesday that it has launched a new iPhone app that lets its retail partners offer instant credit to their customers.

First Citizens BancShares Inc. in Raleigh, N.C., has retired its IronStone Bank brand and converted IronStone's 58 branches into branches of its First Citizens Bank.

FNB United Corp. is another step closer to completing its proposed acquisition of Bank of Granite Corp. after receiving approval for the deal from the Federal Reserve of Richmond.

Members of Har-CO FCU voted to approve the conversion of the $200 million credit union to a mutual savings bank, the first credit union conversion in more than two years.

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday proposed regulations outlining how banks should restructure their operations to comply with a new ban on risky speculative bets.

First Financial Corp. in Terre Haute, Ind., is bulking up in Illinois with a deal to acquire Freestar Bank in Pontiac for $47 million.