Retail & Commercial

Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM) in Brooklyn, N.Y., reported a small increase in quarterly profit.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council on Thursday identified several significant areas of concern, including operational risks like cybersecurity, overreliance on wholesale funding, and the impact of low interest-rates.

Facing strict new guidelines on deposit-advance loans, banks must now decide if it's worth their while to offer short-term credit to cash-strapped borrowers.

The Federal Reserve Board has hit two Midwest banks — Freedom Bank in Tulsa, Okla., and Freedom Bancorp. in Lindstrom, Minn. — with enforcement orders.

Jim Rohr says cybersecurity is one of the biggest issues banks face. The frequent distributed denial-of-service-attacks on banks' web servers that have occurred since September are doing more than disrupting service.

Triumph Bancorp in Dallas was on the hunt for a cheaper and more stable deposit base and found it in National Bancshares, an Iowa company that needed common equity.

Mark Jamison of Capital One envisions a future in which financial services companies mimic Apple and other tech giants, turning bureaucracies into plug-and-play digital platforms.

TowneBank (TOWN) in Suffolk, Va., reported record quarterly profit driven by mortgage-banking and insurance revenue.

Citigroup hopes to capture a larger share of the home loan market by helping borrowers use the outstanding balance of existing accounts to reduce the interest paid over the life of their loan.