This week, the most senior JPMorgan Chase (JPM) executives spent six hours airing their plans for growth – and retrenchment. Here are some of the strategies Chief Executive Jamie Dimon and his top lieutenants discussed.

A growing number of community banks are experimenting with traveling employees and student part-timers to cut branch expenses.

Checking account regulations are outdated even for their primary product. Why would you want to regulate prepaid cards with a set of archaic rules?

Following allegations that the FHFA killed a Fannie Mae plan that would have saved homeowners and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, the ranking member of the House Finance Committee has asked the regulator to explain its decision.

Dan Rollins suggested that BancorpSouth undertake a sequester-style process to reduce expenses.

As ATM network operators add more complex payments functions, technology providers such as Fiserv and NCR are tweaking the underlying technology to better monitor the machines remotely.

No, Tamara Hambright and Paula Vardell aren't sisters, but the longtime co-workers say they have become two halves of the same brain and will work hard to build up the Dallas bank's warehouse lending division.

Federal prosecutors have charged Wilbur Tate, now of Dacula, Ga., with conspiracy to commit bank bribery, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said Wednesday.

Are regulatory rules meant to make big banks safer instead doing more to shield them from competition from smaller players?

There's an oversupply of old-fashioned branches, and banks don't know what to do with them, says industry consultant and executive recruiter Rod Taylor.

Royal Bank of Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Toronto-Dominion Bank reported first-quarter profits that topped analysts' estimates on record earnings from personal and commercial lending.

OceanFirst Financial in Toms River, N.J., has hired the former chief executive of Patriot National Bancorp as its president.

Peoples Financial in Biloxi, Miss., is resuming stock buybacks.

If a customer connects to an open Wi-Fi network, fails to follow adequate Bluetooth communications protocol or uses shoddy passwords on smartphones, a bank's internal networks may be exposed to fraud.

Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) will sell a 25% stake in its Citizens Financial Group unit in the U.S. and shrink its investment bank to boost capital, the British bank said Thursday.

The well-connected consulting firm has hired Joe Petro, a former Secret Service agent who ran Citigroup's security and investigative services for 20 years. Citi has replaced him with Brian Parr, another prominent agency veteran.

The Georgia community bank converted its 300+ staff to Google Apps for Business, signaling a continuing, albeit slow, trend of banks going to the cloud for email service.

Housing counselors grilled mortgage settlement monitor Joseph A. Smith on why banks are not disclosing data that would show whether communities hit hardest by the foreclosures crisis are getting the bulk of the relief.

Organic loan growth and expense control are the top priorities at F.N.B. and People's United, but their CEOs also eager to accelerate expansion in markets where they are relative newcomers.