Blanket condemnations of financial institutions serving college students have failed to grasp the differences between the approach taken by banks and their nonbank competitors.

Recent proxy battles show that the high-stakes clashes are getting pricey for management teams and irate shareholders.

When making a point to banker groups about how much the week-to-week banking habits of Americans have changed in recent years, one simple question tends to create much side chatter, nods and chuckles.

Concord Bank of St. Louis has named Lance Greunke as interim chief executive and president to replace Tony Feraro, who died in May.

BB&T (BBT) of Winston-Salem, N.C., has launched an account designed for teenagers that comes with a prepaid card, reloadable Visa card.

Marion Sandler, the co-chief executive at Golden West Financial in Oakland, Calif., for more than four decades, has died at the age of 81.

Barclays unveiled a video featuring David Hasselhoff earlier this month, as the pop-culture icon cheered on a customer shopping with the bank's new U.K. PayTag device.

Freed from an enforcement order that led it to sharply reduce its assets, Guaranty Bancorp in Denver is now turning its attention to growth.

Credit Solutions of America, a Dallas-based debt resolution company, and owner Doug Van Arsdale must pay nearly $14 million in penalties and restitution to the state of Colorado and former clients for violating state laws, according to Attorney General John Suthers' office.

BancorpSouth (BXS) has reached a settlement in principle for a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Tupelo, Miss., company violated federal securities law.

Royal Financial in Chicago reported a fiscal third-quarter loss of $421,000, compared to earnings of $41,000 a year earlier, as noninterest expense rose.

Berkshire Hills is paying for its latest acquisition, of Beacon Federal, in a way that protects shareholder returns at the expense of its tangible book value.

FlexWage, which provides short-term financing to underbanked consumers, says its products are cheaper and more customer-friendly than the payday loans that regulators are scrutinizing.

Employment in the residential finance sector fell to 266,100 full-time positions in April from 267,600 in March, a difference of about 1,500 jobs, according to figures compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The mortgage industry may have another problem on its hands: originations as measured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac acquisitions in the secondary market took it on the chin late this spring.

HARP 2.0, the expanded GSE refinancing program unveiled late last year, kicked into full speed during the first quarter with volumes doubling to 180,000 units compared to the prior period.

Anchor BanCorp is closing two Wisconsin branches and cutting 11 positions as it struggles to return to profitability and repay a line of credit.

Walter Investment Management Corp. (WAC) on Friday said its Green Tree unit will begin servicing about 4,000 Bank of America Corp. (BAC) mortgages this month as part of the bank's mandate to hire delinquent-loan specialists under a widely watched investor settlement.

Equity Bancshares in Wichita, Kan., has filled its tank to fuel growth. The $600 million-asset company raised $20.4 million in capital that it plans to use for acquisitions and organic growth.

United Financial of Massachusetts is buying Connecticut's New England Banchares in a deal that makes a lot of strategic sense. Yet investors have given the buyer a rousing thumbs-down.