Georgia

Joseph Evans will step down as CEO on June 1, though he will remain the company's chairman. Thomas Wiley, a longtime associate of Evans, is set to take the helm.

The Atlanta company's profits rose on stronger net interest income and investment banking income as well as a tax maneuver.

The On the Rise Financial Center will provide consumers with affordable financial products and financial literacy training.

Jefferson Harralson, the Georgia company's new chief financial officer, had covered banks at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods for 15 years.

H. Palmer Proctor has been the Atlanta company's president since 2004.

The SEC is investigating the bank for selling clients mutual funds that charge marketing fees when other, cheaper funds were available. SunTrust expects an enforcement action.

Malicious software may have been installed on the restaurant’s payment card systems in October.

The $274 million credit union hired the former banker with 30 years of financial services experience after a national search to fill the top spot.

Quarterly profit fell at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta as noninterest expense rose 8.4% and its loan-loss provision increased.

The commercial-and-industrial loan space is overheated, higher rates could stifle mortgage refinancings, and subprime auto delinquencies are on the rise. Bankers could be fighting these fires and more in the new year.