A new Nevada law has gummed up the works of banks seeking to process foreclosures in the state, causing Bank of America and other major players to all but halt new foreclosure starts.

Retail shoppers who download a Shopkick Inc. mobile application on their smartphones to earn rewards points, or "kicks," may earn extra points by paying for purchases with a Visa-branded card.

JPMorgan Chase is rolling out what it says is the first airline card issued in the U.S. that uses the EMV chip-card standard. The EMV standard is used in many other countries to add security at the point of sale.

Occupy Oakland deposited $20,000 in a Wells Fargo account several days after it protested the evils of big banks outside one of the bank's branches.

Webster Financial Corp. in Waterbury, Conn., received court approval to settle longstanding litigation over a condominium project in Columbus, Ohio, that had previously resulted in an almost $19 million verdict.

In the last three months of 2010, banks, credit unions and other lenders made $12 billion of Small Business Administration-backed loans, the most in any quarter in the SBA's history and more than double the volume in any quarter over the last four years.

Watchdog agency says 125 alleged schemes have been shut down through partnering with online search sites.

First Northern Community Bancorp in Dixon, Calif., said Monday that it had exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program after repurchasing a stock warrant from the Treasury Department.

Shares of Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. have been removed from the Nasdaq exchange and are now trading over the counter.

Cathay General Bancorp in Los Angeles has added a former KPMG consultant to its board.

David Greiner has resigned as president and chief executive of Tri-Valley Bank in San Ramon, Calif., and has been replaced by the bank's chairman, Arnold Grisham.

Acquirers and processors are giving greater attention to the hardware-security module used to protect card data while transactions are processed.

Citizens Financial Group Inc. in Providence, R.I., is eliminating underutilized branches and laying off dozens of employees across its 12-state market area as part of a broader effort to trim overhead and improve efficiency.

While B of A nips and tucks as it struggles to meet new capital requirements, JPMorgan Chase bemoans the severity of the rules from a position of relative strength, and hints at the rationale for the behemoths to dismantle themselves.

SILVERDALE, Wash. -- Navy FCU is moving its flagship branch here and is leaving its leased quarters for a credit union-owned 7,600-square-foot building.

WASHINGTON — Regulators closed a bank in Louisiana, and another in Iowa, late Friday to bring the year’s failure total to 90.

Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and other large lenders are fleeing the reverse mortgage industry, leaving specialty lenders with more business than they know what to do with.

The appeals court ruling against MERS that caused the GSEs and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to reinitiate foreclosures on more than 1,600 Michigan properties was overturned by the state's highest court this week.

The Barclays unit in charge of U.S. bank deals has overcome adversity, from the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 to the defection of some important talent last year, and worked on some of the notable deals of the year.