A Maryland District Court judge dismissed 314 collection cases against Maryland residents who were sued by Sunshine Financial Group.

Toronto-Dominion Bank, which owns 45% of TD Ameritrade, signaled aversion to a TD Ameritrade-E-Trade acquisition deal.

BB&T, which took over Colonial Bank after it was seized by regulators, is now asking one of those authorities, the FDIC, to protect it from a $300 million suit brought by creditors of the Alabama bank's former parent, Colonial BancGroup.

Kip Weissman, partner at Luse, Gorman, Pomerenk & Schick, says the explosion of deposits and the dicey loan market have transformed what makes a bank attractive to buyers — and how they calculate its value.

Ecommerce software company Rearden Commerce has raised $133 million in new funding from investors Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and American Express Co.

State Street Corp. has agreed to purchase a Boston brokerage firm, Pulse Trading Inc.

Payments firm S1, jilted by Fundtech, needs to find a new merger partner to stay competitive and please shareholders. A long line of prospective suitors awaits.

The specter of "too big to fail," coupled with the usual fuming by community groups over Capital One's CRA record, made for a dramatic nine hours — and counting.

American Express has purchased Sometrics, a company that facilitates payments within electronic games using virtual currency, in a deal worth $30 million, the company confirmed Tuesday.

Series of bad events led to Seattle banks sale to AmericanWest. Being small did not help things.

A group of bankers have banded together to buy First National Bank of Chillicothe in Texas and will use it to open a branch just outside of Dallas.

Big bank deals will worsen systemic risks and unfair competition, said the ICBA, which called for a moratorium while new regulations are in the works. Capital One argued the deal would create a safer company.

A group representing community banks Tuesday urged federal regulators to impose a moratorium on all acquisitions and mergers involving large financial firms--including Capital One Financial Corp.'s pending plan to buy ING Direct USA.

National Bank of Canada has agreed to acquire the retail brokerage arm of HSBC Holdings Inc. for C$206 million (about $207 million), according to a person familiar the matter.

Executives tell symposium audience that Basel committee's surcharge on systemically important firms will impede economic growth.

The Federal Reserve is holding public hearings in three cities across the country to review Capital One's proposed purchase of ING Direct. The hearings to be held in San Francisco are half a continent away from the nearest branches of what may become America's fifth largest bank. Without branches, the bank's responsibility to California cities and counties is not clear under regulators' current interpretation of the federal Community Reinvestment Act.

First Bancshares Inc. in Hattiesburg, Miss., said Monday that it had expanded along the Gulf Coast after buying eight branches that had belonged to Whitney National Bank.

Denying the application would ice large banks, spook foreign owners and deprive the central bank of a key consolidation tool.

BBVA Compass plans to take a small first step into South Florida this spring, by opening a branch in Miami.

The payments technology firm Fundtech can still expand but spend more on R&D and invest for the long term, an executive explains.