Ginnie Mae is considering raising minimum net-worth requirements for issuers of its mortgage-backed securities after being deluged with applications from small mortgage banks. Disruptions in the mortgage market prompted the rush.

General Motors Co. (GM), the largest U.S. automaker, said its lending arm made a bid in July for Ally Financial Inc. (ALLY)'s international operations, which, if successful, could more than double GM Financial Co.'s consolidated assets.

A key long-term certificate-of-deposit rate has reached a historic low after falling below 1%.

Two banks that are majority-owned by Piedmont Community Bank Holdings in Raleigh, N.C., have agreed to merge.

Kevin McCarty, the insurance commissioner of Florida who recently started investigating the force-placed insurance market, vividly recounts his fight to correct an error that, he says, led to forced coverage on his condo several years ago.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is now offering mobile banking features to users of its prepaid card, Liquid.

Eight banks still have more than $2 billion in loans covered by FDIC loss-sharing agreements, according to data compiled by FIG Partners. Collectively, the FDIC is covering a percentage of losses on $39 billion of loans at those banks. Here are the banks with the largest amount of covered loans at June 30.

Their regulator has achieved for them by administrative fiat what they have been unable to accomplish in Congress.

Credit unions have found another way around the federal cap on business lending. Bankers are livid.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp in Costa Mesa, Calif., will exit the wholesale mortgage business.

Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP, the 24-year-old investment bank that focuses on financial clients, fired about 20 people in units including trading and deal advisory, said people with direct knowledge of the decisions.

Regulators currently entrusted with the task of policing Wall Street are facing a well-funded, well-connected and politically shrewd beast.

Julius Baer Group Ltd., the Swiss money manager established in 1890, agreed to pay about 860 million Swiss francs ($880 million) for Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch wealth management business outside the U.S.

SAGINAW, Mich. – United Financial CU is breaking ground next week on a 15,000-foot expansion of its offices.

BELLEVUE, Neb. -- SAC FCU broke ground last week on a $20 million, four-story headquarters it is building in Papillion just east of Shadow Lake Towne Center.

First Financial Northwest (FFNW), a company under fire from activist shareholders and regulators, will replace the chief executive of its banking unit next month and has made another important management change.

Bank of America's (BAC) vice chairman and a former chief financial officer will retire next month.

First National Community Bancorp (FNCB) has finally caught up on its financial reports for 2011 — now on to 2012.

Visa lost a lot of PIN debit business after new regulations took effect this year, but the payments network insists it has stanched the bleeding and its incentive programs will win back market share.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will contribute about $1.2 billion to settle a price-fixing case brought by retailers over credit-card swipe fees.