Comparable store growth is the core of any great retailer. If you cannot grow your existing stores, you do not deserve to expand.

Banks shouldn't go to extremes to make up for declining earnings, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said Friday.

The board of 1st Mariner Bancorp has withdrawn from a long delayed securities purchase agreement with a New York investment firm that would have injected badly needed capital into the Baltimore company.

First Citizens BancShares (FCNCA) in Raleigh, N.C., postedlower third-quarter profit from the same period last yearafter recording a gain from an acquisition.

Strike Debt, a movement that emerged from the Occupy Wall Street movement, announced plans Friday to stage a variety show and telethon to raise money to buy and cancel consumer debt.

The ruling was quickly hailed by financial institutions, but panned by one of the nation’s largest retail trade groups.

CVB Financial in Ontario, Calif., announced Friday that co-founder John Borba would retire from its board on Nov. 30.

Small banks won a critical battle Friday as regulators agreed to indefinitely delay implementation of Basel III until various issues with a proposal can be resolved.

The looming fiscal cliff has spurred Southside Bancshares of Tyler, Tex., to pay out more of its profits to shareholders.

Fed Gov. Elizabeth Duke said heightened burden from Dodd-Frank and Basel rules could make mortgage lending a less viable option for community banks, which make up a "significant" portion of the market.

Stifel CEO Ronald Kruszewski and KBW CEO Thomas Michaud discuss how the two investment banks complement each other and give their outlook on bank M&A.

A lawsuit that charges Bank of America’s (BAC) Merrill Lynch unit with misleading mortgage investors will be permitted to proceed, a federal judge in Manhattan has ruled.

Provident Financial Holdings (PROV) in Riverside, Calif., has increased its fiscal-year first-quarter earnings after uncovering an accounting error.

Dozens of community banks may freeze their pension plans over the next several years, as they seek to cut costs and limit their potential liabilities. One that did so is Rockville Financial, whose CEO says it could no longer justify to shareholders the expense of a pension.

MoneyGram International has set aside $100 million for victims of consumer fraud scams as part of an effort to settle an investigation by the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

President Obama's re-election will speed up implementation of Dodd-Frank, increasing regulatory burden and potentially spurring some bankers to finally sell.

The Dodd-Frank Act, sold to the public as the tamer of the Wall Street titans, may well end up having a disproportionate impact on smaller institutions, thanks to the costs of capital implications of being "not too big to fail" and the advent of the CFPB.

Community & Southern Holdings has agreed to acquire a branch in metro Atlanta from Ameris Bancorp.

The bank for Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC) in Springfield, Mo., has agreed to sell its travel agency and insurance units so it can focus on its core business.

The results from the latest J.D. Power report are a validation of Huntington's recent efforts to strengthen its small-business banking capabilities.