Retail & Commercial

Building up postitive engagement in the office? It can happen. You just need the right tools and creative thinking to get there.

Customized pages, more integrated content, transaction analytics. Banks are motivated to making corporate portals more useful than ever.

A successful prosecution of JPMorgan would throw into disarray the bank’s substantial and highly lucrative asset management business, among other disincentives for the government to pursue a criminal case.

These companies, featured on American Banker's Best Banks to Work For list, go beyond salaries and health benefits to make their employees feel valued at the office.

Personal visits from the company president, special training for those making the leap to supervisor, notes of encouragement from the boss and from staffers - the institutions on American Banker's list of the Best Banks to Work For offer up interesting examples of what companies can do to boost employee engagement at the office.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has agreed to pay $5.1 billion in settlements to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federal officials said Friday.

News of the government's $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase prompted emotional arguments for and against the bank, as well as satire of all the outrage.

The stock exchange has accepted the $136 million-asset company's plan to recapitalize itself and will allow it to remain listed, OptimumBank said Friday.

Heritage Oaks Bancorp in Paso Robles, Calif., is a lesson in seizing the moment. It went on the M&A offensive just weeks after being freed from a regulatory order, is poised to become No. 2 in market share in San Luis Obispo County and sees major cost-cutting opportunities.

Highlands Bancorp (HSBK) in Vernon, N.J., has agreed to buy Secured Lending Solutions, a mortgage banking company in Glen Rock, N.J.