Retail & Commercial

The focus on raising the $50 billion-asset threshold determining which banks face the toughest provisions is highlighting interest in letting more community banks enjoy exemptions written into the law.

First Niagara reported a fourth-quarter profit, but the more interesting question was why the Buffalo, N.Y., bank won't fully explain the customer problem that has forced it to set aside more than $20 million.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

Complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2014 totaled 39,185, a number that should rise by a few hundred as the totals are refined in the coming weeks.

Independent Bank Corp. of Ionia, Mich., is consolidating 14 of its 74 Michigan branches.

Overall consumer litigation against collection agencies and creditors fell in 2014 thanks to a third straight year seeing a decline in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases.

Prosperity Bancshares in Houston posted higher quarterly profit despite investor concern about the company's energy loans.

A small Georgia lender has reached a deal to avoid a threatened involuntary bankruptcy, though the resolution is likely to leave key legal questions on trust-preferred debt and bankruptcy unresolved.

Huntingdon Valley Bank in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., and Victory Bank in Limerick, Pa., have called off a planned merger of equals.

JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs boosted the cash portion of their leaders' bonuses for the first time since 2010, as a surge in U.S. bank stocks slows.