Bank of America is working with Cardlytics to test an online rewards system called BankAmeriDeals.

Southwest Bancorp Inc. in Stillwater, Okla., on Tuesday posted a fourth-quarter loss after shedding $300 million in problem assets through a bulk loan sale.

Executives at Regions are overhauling their deposit business and readying for an eventual exit from Tarp now that they have a deal in place to sell their brokerage unit to Raymond James.

Trepp LLC's Matthew Anderson on the disadvantages giant banks face and why midsize banks will survive.

I naively thought that Suze Orman's new prepaid offering, the Approved Card, would help turn the tide of negativity. Instead, it has had the opposite effect, creating a seemingly endless echo chamber about the evils of prepaid.

UniRush plans to lower the fees on its reloadable prepaid cards. The plan was disclosed Tuesday afternoon on the Twitter account of UniRush founder and music mogul Russell Simmons.

Data published this month provides support for criticism of the small business lending program as a backdoor exit from Tarp for small banks. Institutions that used SBLF capital to refinance bailout infusions increased such loans at far lower rates than peers.

Banks need to increase revenue, and deals are tempting. But shareholders want buybacks and dividends. KeyCorp CEO Beth Mooney discusses the tough calls banks like hers face in the current economic climate.

Virginia Commerce Bancorp Inc. reported improved fourth-quarter profits due to a lower loan-loss provision and higher prices for foreclosed properties.

Fueled by balance sheet growth, Signature Bank’s fourth-quarter profits rose 32% from a year earlier, to $40 million.

Park National Corp. in Newark, Ohio, said in a regulatory filing Monday that that it will revise its 2010 financial statement, reducing its net income by $12.4 million.

Wilbur Ross says in an email to American Banker that BankUnited tried to sell only after an unnamed investment bank told management it could fetch a "substantial premium above market."

A dearth of failed banks and an artificially low interest rate environment are causing headaches for many firms that now must face an uphill climb before cashing out.

While Citigroup Inc. struggles to get rid of its consumer lending unit, banks including Wells Fargo & Co. and SunTrust Banks Inc. are expanding their similar businesses.

Alex Pollock's "Let's Put Checks and Balances on CFPB" is spot on describing the enormous danger of a politically unchecked CFPB lording over consumer financial services, and what animates its champions. They believe the financial services industry is rapacious and untrustworthy, a great many of their countrymen are not fully competent to make their own ("the right") choices selecting consumer financial products, and unconstrained regulatory mandarins produce better outcomes than lightly regulated markets.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is working with a unit of Xerox Corp. to add contactless payment acceptance at public-transit turnstiles.

NBT Bancorp Inc. in Norwich, N.Y., said late Monday that its fourth-quarter earnings fell 5% from a year earlier as lower interest yields squeezed its net interest margin.

The company, which staged a legal fight against the Durbin Amendment last year, took sizeable hits to interchange revenue in the fourth quarter.

A poster boy for the digital currency now says credit cards are “way simpler.” His fictional counterpart in the "Bitcoin for Dummies" episode of "The Good Wife" is similarly disillusioned.

The dollar volume of online fraud is going up, but actual incidents of fraud are decreasing, according to a report released Tuesday by CyberSource, a unit of Visa.