Retail & Commercial

Federal regulators have hinted they'd like to toughen the rules governing the way banks collect delinquent consumer debt. Making them stick would likely prove challenging.

Santa Cruz County Bank of Santa Cruz, Calif., reported higher quarterly profit because of balance sheet growth.

Higher overhead weighed First Bancorp of Indiana down in the fourth quarter.

Regions Financial (RF) reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates as its net interest margin, a gauge of lending profitability, widened.

Synovus Financial posted stronger fourth-quarter earnings after it recaptured substantially all of the value of its deferred tax asset.

Citigroup's Michael picks a team much like him, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau weighs in on force-placed insurance and banks release good-news, bad-news earnings reports.

While the banking industry was recovering from a global financial crisis and reacting to the prospects of new regulations, smart entrepreneurs were finding new and better solutions to people's problems.

The Minnesota Department of Commerce closed the $50.2 million-asset 1st Regents Bank in Andover on Friday.

James Montgomery, a longtime bank executive who spent his life building financial institutions, has passed away. The 78-year-old passed away on Dec. 13 in Rancho Mirage, Calif., after suffering from health problems in recent years.

Plaintiffs' attorneys behind a group of wildly successful overdraft class action cases have been feuding over how to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars. The judge overseeing the litigation has called a timeout.