Revisions to banks' duties under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act are coming soon, and they are meant to "ease the operational and technological burdens" of banks, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.

Saddle River Valley Bank, which was bought last year by Center Bancorp, allegedly failed to adequately monitor transactions with currency exchange houses in Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

Sen. Bob Corker, a co-author of legislation to overhaul the mortgage finance market, forcefully defended his proposal that private capital take at least 10% of the first loss on mortgage-backed securities. Others predicted that he'll have to water it down to advance the bill.

Valley National Bancorp in Wayne, N.J., is offering to sell up to $125 million of subordinated notes to repay its trust-preferred debt.

First Niagara Financial Group in Buffalo, N.Y., has promoted Tom Faughnan to become senior director of its residential mortgage business.

To succeed today, financial firms need to encourage female employees to take the right kind of risks, such as trying new innovations to serve clients.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Sandra Pianalto said the central bank is working to improve the speed and security of the U.S. payments system.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG and 10 other international lenders were sued by a U.S. credit union regulator alleging they illegally manipulated benchmark Libor interest rates.

Jacksonville Bancorp in Florida has raised $1 million through a rights offering.

Ocwen Financial in Atlanta has retired approximately $159 million of debt held by a private-equity backer.

Community bankers may have a long wish list of legislative changes for Congress to consider, but it is unlikely lawmakers will take up a comprehensive bill addressing those issues anytime soon.

Three years after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, many bankers are still anxious as they wait for some rules to be written and others to be implemented. Yet a new set of regulatory and legislative challenges looms.

Nearly half of all M&A activity since 2011 has been divestitures, according to a new report from Deloitte. The data reflects banks trying to streamline their business in the new operating and regulatory environments.

Citigroup, the fifth-biggest U.S. mortgage originator last year, is cutting about 1,000 jobs in its home-lending business.

With every action now being scrutinized in real time, banks don't necessarily need guidelines and mandates to know if they are doing right by customers and shareholders, Fifth Third CEO Kevin Kabat says at American Banker's Regulatory Symposium.

You would be forgiven in thinking the OCC has been solely preoccupied with JPMorgan Chase in recent days, but the agency has disciplined three other national banks since late August, according to its monthly roundup of enforcement actions.

JPMorgan Chase will be charged by federal prosecutors in California in connection with sales of mortgage-backed securities, a person familiar with the matter said.

Banking expert Dennis Jacobe, an economist who held top posts at the U.S. League of Savings and Loan Associations, the Financial Research Institute, and the Gallup Organization, has died. He was 66.

Panelists at American Banker's Regulatory Symposium will discuss a federal proposal addressing how banks should develop risk management policies for their use of social media.

Sandler O'Neill included several new additions to its annual ranking of top-performing small banks and thrifts, suggesting that small lenders are slowly returning to pre-crisis health.