CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Warren FCU is renovating a former Bank of the West Branch in Fort Collins for its second Colorado location but first stand-alone branch.

NORWICH, Conn. – CorePlus FCU announced plans to open two new full-service branches inside area Wal-Mart Supercenter stores in 2013.

Old Line Bancshares has agreed to buy WSB Holdings in a deal that will combine two banks based in Bowie, Md.

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Executives at FirstMerit, PNC and KeyCorp — which have acquired branches in deals in recent years — are seeking to wring substantial cost savings from their brick-and-mortar networks and rely more on high-tech services.

Billhighway, a payments firm that caters to nonprofits, plans to outfit clients with a device that attaches to a smartphone that can be used to receive payments from donors remotely.

Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said Monday the agency will unveil a new representation and warranties model for conventional loans to help minimize risk exposure to lenders.

The $169 million-asset bank will buy two branches from Community South Bank in Parsons, Tenn., the Nashville Business Journal reported Monday. TriStar will assume certain deposits and assets of branches in Columbia Spring Hill from the $497 million-asset Community.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle is treading back into safer waters, after a near shutdown a few years earlier, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said Monday.

Fourteen years and one near-collapse following its merger with Travelers Insurance Group, the company's mix of business and geographic concentrations closely resemble that of the original Citicorp.

Executives at a number of smaller banks see an opportunity in lending to peers despite lingering risks that are driving large and midsize lenders out of the business.

Uncertainty surrounding the economy, the election and other concerns are keeping some potential borrowers "on the sideline," Beth Mooney, the chairman and chief executive at KeyCorp (KEY) said Monday.

Senate Democrats tried Monday to revive a mortgage refinancing bill, reintroducing a slimmed-down version of the measure in the hope of wooing Republicans.

Streamlining and cross-selling initiatives are aimed at creating a simpler company that is more in touch with its customers, Thompson tells investors at Barclays conference.

Monarch Community Bancorp in Coldwater, Mich., is set to start trading its stock over the counter to cut costs.

Capital Bank Financial, a $7.7 billion-asset privately held bank holding company, said Monday it would raise about $250 million via an initial public offering the company first announced in June 2011.

The Republican candidate for Senate says her opponent violated ethics rules when he accepted a loan from the bank in 2008.

Wall Street hopes M&T's $3.7 billion deal for Hudson City will spark a rush of mergers and acquisitions. These five banks are prime takeover targets.

Agency is reviewing exam and rule-writing policies to explore ways to make regulation more efficient for community banks.