The Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to accept the settlement and forego any appeals after a California judge effectively gutted the government's case.

Prosecutors charged three men with taking part in a $100 million fraud involving the former chief executive officer of Manhattan's Park Avenue Bank, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to lying to regulators and embezzling funds.

The battle over interchange fees moves to its next phase Tuesday when a federal judge hears complaints from merchants that the Federal Reserve's cap on the fees not go far enough.

Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania (RBPAA) promoted three executives as the $831 million-asset company's management ranks continues to undergo changes.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has lifted a cease-and-desist order against Twin City Bank after it raised fresh capital.

The U.S. Small Business Administration has chosen Wells Fargo (WFC) as the servicing agent for its 503/504 loan program, replacing Bank of New York Mellon (BK), which had the job for the past 20 years.

Investors Bancorp (ISBC) will pay its first dividend, as the $11.5 billion-asset mutual thrift edges closer to a possible second-step conversion.

The $1 billion-asset bank unit of Heritage Oaks Bancorp (HEOP) on Monday announced it would acquire a branch in Morro Bay from Coast Bancorp (CTBP) in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

It is neither the intent nor the practice of NCUA to influence a vote on a credit union conversion. Our rules protect members' rights to make well informed decisions.

Under new international rules, mutual banks in the U.S. will need a way to issue marketable securities to raise capital. Core capital deferred shares, a U.K. innovation, offer a model.

The $8 billion-asset unit of First Midwest Bancorp (FMBI) said Monday that David Knapp has joined the company as president of a newly formed group for commercial banking in Chicago's western suburbs.

In a rare coordinated effort Monday, all three federal banking agencies, the CFPB and the state regulator in Utah announced more than $112 million in enforcement penalties against American Express for card practices that allegedly violated a range of consumer protection laws.

Community bank CFO Bob Dieterich runs for Congress in upstate NY.

KINSTON, N.C. -- Self Help CU’s recycled branch here—a former gas station- is green in more ways than one.

Wintrust Financial in Rosemont, Ill., has agreed to buy another failed bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Two former executives at Washington Mutual, who paid fines to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last year for the thrift's "reckless" lending practices, plot their next move.

At least a dozen community banks have planned new headquarters in the past year, either by building offices or leasing new digs. Low interest rates and great pricing are making the moves easier.

To satisfy creditors, Big Sandy Holding's bankruptcy plan, filed on Thursday, calls for an auction of its $840 million-asset unit, Mile High Banks.

State Street, in a new program with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will hire 100 students part time to perform certain back-office jobs and support business lines across the company.

The debate over whether caps on interchange fees were good for consumers is alive and well at the Durbin Amendment's one-year anniversary — even as banks' interchange revenues recover.