Retail & Commercial

Consumer bankers are reluctant to start charging customers new fees for existing products. But Capital One's Jonathan Witter pointed to the flexibility banks offers in pricing business-banking products as an example of how they could generate more fee revenue on the consumer side.

Heritage Financial is paying 1.5 times tangible book value for Valley Community, but the markets welcomed the deal because Heritage expects to slash the seller's expenses as much as 50% because of market overlaps.

Banks, thrifts and credit unions brought in $32 billion in overdraft revenue last year, a 1% increase from 2011, according a new study.

HSBC agreed to sell its Canadian store card unit to Toronto-Dominion Bank as it closes its consumer-finance business in the country.

U.S. Bancorp (USB) has agreed to purchase Deutsche Bank's (DB) municipal bond trustee business.

A number of bank chief executives have ties to teams in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament. Here are some prominent examples.

Bankers who were at last week's convention are considering ways to expand social media use and offer new products that will not run afoul of regulators.

Capital requirements for community banks should be raised outside of the Basel III process and through a much more simplified system of risk-weighted assets.

Planet Payment will allow electronic commerce merchants in the U.S. and Canada to accept UnionPay cards, one of the largest card brands in the world, with more than 3.5 billion cards issued internationally.

Goldman Sachs (GS) endured a setback Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the company's appeal of a lower-court decision involving securities backed by residential mortgages.