Irene Dorner, president and chief executive of HSBC's U.S. bank, is looking beyond the sales of her credit cards business and 195 upstate New York branches and planning to expand HSBC's operations in California and the West Coast.

Boston Federal Reserve Bank president Eric Rosengren wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to do more to refinance homeowners and address housing market problems.

Home Federal Bancorp Inc. in Nampa, Idaho, is shuttering six branches, streamlining its management, refinancing its debt and shifting mortgage loan originations to a third party as part of a broad restructuring that it says will reduce overhead by $3.6 million over the next 12 months.

The vast majority of companies continue to fall short of complying with the Payment Card Industry data security standard during their initial audit, with only 21% getting a passing grade.

Applications for new mortgages jumped 9.3% for the week that ended Sept. 23, a sign that ultralow rates are finally spurring new business activity.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said there has been an 88% year-over-year increase in mortgage loan fraud suspicious activity reports filed in the second quarter.

The lowest mortgage rates on record, coupled with a new Federal Reserve program to reduce them further, are turning housing bears like Baker into optimists.

Foreclosure starts reached 217,955 units in August, an 18% sequential jump, and the first time since March that the reading was north of 200,000, according to new figures compiled by the Hope Now alliance.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating several residential servicing shops for abusive practices — including inaccurate payment records and charging excessive fees — according to FTC associate director Joel Winston.

Card association will allow European Visa cardholders to send money to each other by phone.

The Treasury Department announced the last group of banks that will receive capital under the Small Business Lending Fund, which distributed more than $4 billion to 332 banks, falling far short of industry expectations.

ECB Bancorp is set to receive nearly $80 million in capital by mid-November. The $942 million-asset company is laying out a three-pronged strategy of acquisitions, de novo branch expansion and organic growth to get to $3 billion to $5 billion in the next few years.

Jefferson Bancshares Inc. of Morristown, Tenn., restated its last quarter as a loss after its take on bad investments and loans worsened.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency offered four options for revamping the economics of mortgage servicing earlier this year. Now it's down to two sharply contrasting plans.

Cascade Bancorp in Bend, Ore., has agreed to sell about $108 million of loans, generating $58 million in proceeds in an effort to remain well capitalized.

Banks and technology companies betting on mobile payments must overcome a very basic obstacle: most Americans still don't have smartphones and so can't use Google Wallet or its rivals.

Though some have criticized whether the Payment Card Industry data security standard does enough to protect card data, in Europe the standard has become a catalyst for getting companies to take security seriously.

The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it had approved the applications of banks in Italy and Japan to establish representative offices in New York.

ACI Worldwide has extended its exchange offer for shares of S1 until Oct. 31. The offer, which has a blended value of $9.44 per share, was set to expire Sept. 28.

The head of a congressional panel that oversees the Internal Revenue Service says a proposed rule that would require U.S. banks to report interest paid to foreign account holders would discourage foreign investment and place an unnecessary burden on banks.