Corporate governance

Howard Bancorp CEO Mary Ann Scully was so keen on buying 1st Mariner that she met with a representative of one of the Baltimore company's three largest shareholders before meeting with management, and she kept talking with them. It worked.

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The company agreed to buy Commercial Bancshares for $59 million in stock.

Total revenue rose less than 1% to $21.8 billion, but expenses declined 2.5% to $13.1 billion. That computed to the highest profit at Bank of America in six years.

Bob Ramsey, who had worked for FBR Capital Markets for more than a decade, will handle investor relations and strategic planning at Customers.

The Montana-based credit union has returned earnings to members each year for the last 20 years.

Recent hurricanes and wildfires still raging in California are fresh reminders to bankers of the importance of emergency preparedness plans.

The company had strong gains in construction lending and trust fee income, but its business lending operation had flat results.

Now in its sixth year, the annual event is being marked by credit unions in at least 18 states.

Connecticut-based CU surpasses 50,000 members just months after hitting $500 million in assets.

Overall net income rose 8% to $4.13 billion as cost control helped overcome shortcomings in global consumer banking profits and bond trading revenue.

As conditions worsened on Wednesday, bankers said that their employees’ safety is their top priority.

CU supporters nationwide can made donations to CUAid, with all funds are going towards credit unions in California and other areas damaged by natural disasters.

The California Credit Union League is setting up relief efforts via CUAid through the NCUF

While social media is helping get younger members in the door, observers say credit unions won't get far without the right mix of products and services for millennials.

The CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management and American Banker’s Most Powerful Woman in Finance shares advice about dealing with tricky clients and colleagues.

Lending rose by more than 9 percent during the first half of the year and membership hit a new record.

For 70 years, the CU has served the communities of southeast Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.

Business First will raise $66 million through a stock placement to help fund the deal.

Rhode Island’s oldest CU is adding branches in the southern part of state, including purchasing former bank branches.