Housing prices will continue to decline slightly through 2012 but will begin to rebound in 2013, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

After 100 years of having a federal charter, Frost says new reform law has increased the value of state regulation.

Hana Financial Group of Seoul, South Korea, has agreed to buy newly issued shares of common stock, and a 51% ownership interest, in Saehan Bancorp in Los Angeles.

Massachusetts' top securities regulator has asked Bank of America to turn over documents related to two collateralized loan obligations.

The Texas Bankers Association is irked about the National Credit Union Administration's decision to infuse $60 million into the otherwise insolvent Texans Credit Union.

Bank of America Corp. and its largest rivals are hogging most of the mortgage-mess headlines. But smaller banks are also struggling to resolve problems from their high levels of delinquent loans.

Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. in Madison reported another quarterly loss.

If you live in Oklahoma: Sorry, you’re screwed. Your Attorney General is more worried about moral hazard and wouldn’t sign the agreement.

More than a day after the announcement of a mammoth national mortgage servicing settlement, the actual terms of the deal still aren't public. That's because a fully authorized, legally binding deal has not been inked yet.

New PCI Council Chairman Michael Mitchell, an Amex executive, says the security group's bank members are taking a more proactive approach to security than they have in the past.

Fannie Mae has hired Wells Fargo mortgage executive Anthony 'Tuck' Reed as a senior executive in charge of customer strategy and support in its single-family business.

The private banking arm of KeyCorp in Cleveland has established a Delaware trust company and hired two veterans from competitors to help run it.

EverBank, which has been carefully growing its mortgage business the past few years, has agreed to purchase the warehouse division of MetLife, the company confirmed to National Mortgage News.

Horizon Bancorp in Michigan City, Ind., has agreed to buy Heartland Bancshares Inc. of Franklin, Ind., in an all-stock deal valued at $14 million.

Social networking giant Facebook is already a half-billion dollar payment company. For banks, that presents threats and opportunities.

Liberty Bell Bank has been fighting battles with a former chairman for more than five years. Last month, the bank filed to form a bank holding company, just months after the activist investor was rounded up by U.S. marshals for allegedly defrauding elderly people around Philadelphia.

CapStar Bank in Nashville announced late Thursday that it has struck a deal to acquire the $169 million American Security Bank & Trust Co. in Hendersonville, Tenn., for a mix of cash and stock.

Hudson City Bancorp Inc. said its chairman and chief executive is stepping aside temporarily to attend to an unexpected medical issue, leaving its operating chief to assume those duties for the time being.

In addition to the national mortgage servicing settlement, Nevada has reached a side deal with Bank of America, state Attorney General Catherine Masto announced late Thursday.

Multiple state and federal officials put the banks on notice that the $25 billion mortgage servicing settlement is just the first step in pursuing civil litigation and criminal prosecutions in connection with misdeeds before, during and after the financial crisis.