Summit Financial Group in Moorefield, W.Va., has agreed to buy Highland County Bankshares in Monterey, Va., for $21.8 million in cash. The deal is expected to close early in the third quarter.

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A Malvern Bancorp director has resigned following a disagreement over one of the Paoli, Pa., company's clients.

Univest Corp. of Pennsylvania was negotiating to buy Fox Chase Bancorp when its stock plummeted in August. The decline prompted Fox Chase to seek other offers, while forcing Univest to adjust its proposal to prop up the deal value.

JPMorgan Chase will renew its commitment to support the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, an interdisciplinary national institute focused on the issues affecting military members after they leave the service that the bank co-founded with Syracuse University.

Santander Consumer USA Holdings delayed the filing of its annual report Monday amid discussions with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding unresolved accounting issues.

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First Federal Bank of Kansas City has agreed to a $2.8 million settlement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to resolve allegations of redlining in African-American neighborhoods.

New services seek to replace lender processes that often involve manually updated spreadsheets and other efforts pieced together to meet steepening regulatory requirements for vendor management.

Comerica in Dallas is warning that its loan-loss provision this quarter will be larger than previously estimated because of falling oil prices.

Benjamin Bochnowski will be named chief executive of both the holding company and the $865 million-asset Peoples Bank at the bank's April 28 annual meeting.

Lawmakers have introduced the Medical Debt Relief Act, designed to remove settled and paid medical debts from consumer credit reports, in the Senate and House.

Radian Guaranty is the latest private mortgage insurer to announce a change to its pricing structure for borrower-paid policies.

Unity Bancorp of Clinton, N.J., has repurchased $5 million of subordinated debt it issued before the financial crisis.

The delinquency rate on first-lien mortgage loans on 1-4 unit residential properties fell at a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.77% in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31. It marked the lowest level since Q3 2009.

Bankers in the Bakken Shale region of Montana and North Dakota are keeping an eye on exposure to hotels, apartments and retail space as economic slowdowns occur in energy-producing markets. Bankers in the Marcellus Shale region are also on alert, though there might be less exposure since that region had not yet had a development boom.

There are good, bad and ugly stories about how marijuana entrepreneurs deal with taxes and other financial management issues while having little access to banking services.

After imposing a virtual moratorium on adding new issuers, Ginnie Mae is again accepting applications from mortgage companies seeking to pool loans for securitization and servicing.