First Commercial Bancshares will to sell a branch in Norman, Oklahoma. The Edmond, Okla., company has been focusing more on Colorado, where it has four branches.

MetLife is still waiting to free itself from oversight by banking regulators.

The Santa Rosa, Calif., thrift is the latest lender to be targeted by the Justice Department for allegedly discriminating against minorities.

Citizens Republic had been rumored to be on the block for several weeks. Analysts are also calling the deal significant, but pricey, for FirstMerit.

If housing continues to show signs of stabilization, it is possible that the FHA's mortgage insurance fund will not require a bailout. The agency's been smart lately, but also lucky.

Illinois soared to the highest foreclosure rate in the U.S. last month as job losses mounted, luring investors that scoured the state for homes priced at half of peak values.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – St. Mary’s CU was cleared Tuesday to build a new branch at the old Friendly’s Ice Cream location in Westborough.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a candidate to assume control of the House Financial Services Committee next year, sharply criticized the Dodd-Frank Act, saying it had severely damaged financial institutions.

The Near Field Communication chip used in many mobile wallets was conspicuous by its absence during Apple Inc.'s unveiling of the iPhone 5.

Capital One's CEO expresses concern that innovations from the likes of Google and PayPal could put banks in a "back seat." He also says the bank is done with acquisitions for the time being.

Citigroup won dismissal of a suit in which cardholders claimed the bank failed to take adequate steps to prevent a computer security breach that affected more than 360,000 accounts.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. warned banks under its watch Wednesday about the risks of acquiring participations in loans while relying too heavily on originating institutions for the underwriting.

The FDIC highlighted continued use of "alternative financial services" in its second-ever survey reporting the share of households that are unbanked or underbanked.

Executives clashed over whether to add or kill branches, parried M&A rumors, defended big banks and braced for economic slowdown at the Barclays financial services conference in New York.

Zions Bancorp. (ZION) is hopeful that it will exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program in late September or early in the fourth quarter.

BNP Paribas SA, France's biggest bank, embarked on a five-year plan to expand services to affluent U.S. clients as the company looks to businesses beyond its core European market for growth.

"No financial institution's collapse could sink our economy"? Funny. "To accord nonbanks parity with banks, just regulate nonbanks more strictly"? Hilarious. But here's a real howler: "We have to go on subsidizing home building and financing."

Regions has retooled its wealth management operations, an effort that was partly spurred by the company's sale of Morgan Keegan earlier this year.

Banks as a whole continue to invest heavily in bonds issued by Fannie and Freddie, but strategic orientations vary widely across individual companies. Use this interactive graphic to see portfolio composition for big holding companies.

The Fed may be considering more quantitative easing or keeping interest rates artificially low. That's not what leaders of small banks want to hear.