Carver Bancorp (CARV) in New York reported its third consecutive quarter of profitability, reflecting lower expenses and higher income from asset sales.

Triumph Bancshares in Germantown, Tenn., has agreed to buy two mortgage businesses from Merchants & Planters Bancshares in Bolivar, Tenn.

Its landing page should make it easy for prospective customers to see where to sign up for an account, research interest rates and apply for a loan or credit card.

Wells Fargo must face lawsuits by home loan borrowers over claims the bank refused to offer them permanent mortgage modifications for which they assert they qualified, a U.S. appeals court ruled.

COLONIE, N.Y. – CapCom FCU began construction on a new three-story, 118,400-square-foot home in this Albany suburb yesterday.

As a good bank in a hard-hit state, Gulfstream Bancshares in Stuart, Fla., focused on getting in the best shape to be above reproach to potential buyers. The strategy worked, and its agreement to sell itself to CenterState could embolden others.

The $1.8 billion-asset company said late Thursday that Patrick Bevack, who is 67, will retire as president and CEO next year.

Regulators are examining loans originated by National City, which PNC bought in 2008, suggesting they might have been priced to have a "disparate impact" on minority borrowers.

Green Dot is elbowing into a corner of the prepaid card market that rival NetSpend has long dominated.

The Federal Reserve Board has taken action against ABCT Holdings in Waco, Tex. and terminated regulatory orders with two Minnesota lenders.

ATM operators have a lot at stake in the fallout of a federal judge's ruling last week that the Federal Reserve Board needs to review the debit fee caps and network routing mandates set under the Durbin amendment.

Fox Chase Bancorp (FXCB) in Hatboro, Pa., wants to discard its federal thrift charter.

PNC Financial Services got a U.S. subpoena tied to foreclosure expenses on federally backed home loans and said two agencies are investigating whether its mortgages were unfairly priced.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is laying off roughly 600 mortgage banking employees in Colorado and South Carolina, according to local news reports.

The share of U.S. mortgages that are seriously delinquent plunged to the lowest level in almost five years as improving employment and rising home prices move the foreclosure crisis closer to an end.

TowneBank bought a minority stake in a security firm to help protect its commercial customers and boost revenue.

The Chevy Chase, Md., network completed two loans totaling $40 million that were secured by long-term care facilities in California and Ohio, BancAlliance said Thursday.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency should further narrow the circumstances in which Fannie or Freddie can make a lender repurchase a loan. This would encourage lending and strengthen the recovery.

BlackRock, DoubleLine and Pimco filed a lawsuit Wednesday to try to stop the city of Richmond from buying and restructuring underwater mortgages through the use of eminent domain.

Buyers, sellers and shareholders rarely profit from bank acquisitions, the author argues. There are too many things that have to go right in the pricing and integration, and there is too much that can go wrong.