Bank stocks

Meridian Corp. may have breached sales agreements after originating nearly $100 million in loans in a state where it lacked a license.

As Metro Bank’s problems mount, calls for Hill’s ouster as chairman are getting louder.

The London bank, founded by American entrepreneur Vernon Hill, has lost three-fourths of its market value since British regulators found that some of Metro’s mortgages were given the wrong risk weighting.

The company said it could use proceeds from selling common and preferred stock to increase lending and add branches.

Profitability improved significantly last year for banks with less than $2 billion of assets, but not because of anything they did. Some troubling trends lurk beneath those big gains too.

Political contributions from Wall Street rose, but did they influence policy?; bank stocks post biggest monthly gain since President Trump was elected.

CEO Kessell Stelling said he thinks about Synovus' depressed stock price daily, even though his team is ahead of schedule cutting costs from a deal that closed in January.

The company could use its share of proceeds from the IPO to repay debt and pursue bank acquisitions.

The company plans to use the new capital to pursue growth opportunities.

The French banking giant has spent months winding down its holdings in the $20 billion-asset bank.

Shareholder approval, usually a formality, is far from guaranteed when an acquirer's share price is sliding.

New CEO Ronald O'Hanley is pushing to reduce expenses, automate more functions and simplify the organizational structure.

There had been a cascade in recent days of downgrades and other negative forecasts in connection with big banks, but some analysts on Wednesday picked up the industry's argument that fundamentals are stronger than the markets are giving banks credit for.

Investors are spooked by banks' exposure to oil and other sectors threatened by a global slowdown as well as by policy uncertainties, but banks argue credit quality is strong and recession fears are exaggerated.

It was a year to remember for women executives at SunTrust and Amex’s new CEO, and one to forget for Wells Fargo and investors in bank stocks.

Atlantic Equities’ John Heagerty cut his recommendation on JPMorgan Chase to neutral, saying the bank now “offers the least upside” to price targets among the major banks.

While equity prices drop an average 5% at big banks, bosses express confidence in the U.S. economy; the bank appoints new managers in payments, consumer banking and marketing.

U.S. earnings climbed 44% from a year earlier, aided by lower taxes, a widening net interest margin, record contributions from its stake in TD Ameritrade.

The ratings agency said that it views rollbacks of stress-test comparisons and liquidity coverage ratio requirements as "negative" for banks with between $100 billion and $250 billion of assets.