Retail & Commercial

Cascade Bancorp (CACB), the holding company for the $1.3 billion-asset bank, said Thursday that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities have terminated an August 2009 cease-and-desist order with the bank.

BankUnited in Miami Lakes, Fla., has priced a planned secondary offering by its biggest investors.

Union First Market Bankshares in Richmond, Va., has repurchased a large block of common stock from one of its largest investors.

Since 1995, when the San Francisco bank made its first commitment to female-owned businesses, it has lent them an average of $2.1 billion per year.

M&T CEO Robert Wilmers packs a punch in his annual letters to shareholders. Here are some of the highlights of this year's missive.

The move to align the Southwest Airlines and AirTran frequent flier credit cards under the same issuing bank is just one stop in the route toward the eventual merger of the two carriers' affinity programs.

Citigroup (NYSE:C) has asked the Federal Reserve to authorize a $1.2 billion share buyback program this year, in a bid to prove it has recovered from the financial crisis and improved its operations in the past year.

The merger of NBT Bancorp (NBT) and Alliance Financial Group (ALNC) is nearly official.

With so much attention on cybercrime, it may be surprising to realize plastic cards remain an appealing target for theft.

CommunityBank of Texas has agreed to buy Vista Bank Texas. "These are two independent powerhouses coming together to fill a hole in the Houston banking market," said J. Pat Parsons, CommunityBank's CEO.