WASHINGTON — When weighing financial-aid offers, among students' concerns are how much debt they will have at graduation and how much they will owe in loan payments each month.

Joint federal and state effort to probe securitization practices leading to crisis will include information-sharing.

A unit of Town and Country Financial Corp. in Springfield, Ill., has agreed to buy a branch in Quincy, Ill., from Associated Banc-Corp.

The financial industry's troubles with a controversial type of insurance coverage appear to be spreading to new areas as New York State's Department of Financial Services issues dozens of subpoenas.

With scant details of new plan to help homeowners, analysts weigh in on whether yet another program will help.

The foreclosure reviews mandated by the Fed and the OCC have a better chance of helping current and future borrowers than the state attorneys general settlement, if it ever happens.

For a smaller banks such as the $409 million-asset The Bank of Georgia, figuring out how to use social media safely and legally isn't easy.

The prepaid card company will introduce a bank account with a traditional debit card attached to it sometime this year, chief executive Steve Streit told American Banker.

Dime Community Bancshares Inc. in Brooklyn, N.Y., said that fourth-quarter profit rose, despite a decline in net interest income, because of a lower loan-loss provision.

Last year, United Community flirted with the notion of exiting the Tarp and buying failed banks. Now management is talking about major cost cutting as it struggles to post sustainable profits.

The head of consumer payments at Google Inc., who was working on the company's mobile wallet, has resigned.

Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc.'s total loan portfolio shrunk $500 million last year, but it entered 2012 with big strides in commercial and industrial lending.

Banks are going to new lengths to burnish their image in the public eye, with Wells Fargo & Co. now taking its very own red carpet moment.

MB Financial Inc.'s fourth-quarter results fell shy of Wall Street's expectations, but things are still looking up for the Chicago company.

West Coast Bancorp in Lake Oswego, Ore., benefitted greatly in the fourth quarter after reversing its remaining deferred tax asset valuation allowance.

Banks begin turning to Facebook and other sites to size up customers. Regulations require that they proceed with caution.

The overall success of the small to mid-sized business (SMB) market remains pivotal to the full economic recovery.

Provident Financial Services Inc. reported that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 23% from a year earlier, to $14.9 million, because of an increase in net loans.

Hancock Holding Co.'s fourth-quarter results included hefty costs associated with buying Whitney Holding Corp.

Bank of America Corp.'s Chief Executive Friday reiterated he doesn't think the bank needs to make new acquisitions.