Banking

The Louisiana company agreed to buy Florida Bank Group in a deal that will allow it to enter Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Tampa. It is the latest deal for a bank that has been an aggressive acquirer this year.

Southside Bancshares in Tyler, Texas, is getting out of subprime auto lending.

A federal court on Thursday halted a telemarketing scheme that duped senior citizens by pretending to be part of Medicare and took millions of dollars from consumers' bank accounts without consent.

A trade group for payment processors is accusing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. of improperly pressuring banks to cut ties with merchants in the pornography business.

Online payday lenders operate a Wild West marketplace full of financial fraud and consumer abuses, according to a new report released by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, said a previously disclosed data breach of its systems affected 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.

Online borrowers are often hit with unauthorized charges and subjected to threats of arrests, according to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Former President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at the November event, which is expected have more than 5,000 participating students.

The American Bankers Association, which initially opposed ".bank" domain names on the Web, is now promoting them as a way to enhance security amid growing cyber risk concerns.

Pennant Management, a Wisconsin investment manager for community banks and retirement plans, sued a Florida lender for allegedly selling it more than $22.8 million in sham loans that the lender said were guaranteed by the government.

Two American Indian tribes so far have failed to prove that New York's top banking regulator exceeded his authority in cracking down on out-of-state payday lenders last year, an appeals court panel ruled this week.

JPMorgan Chase denied knowledge of an additional security breach Thursday after The New York Times reported possible evidence of a fresh attack.

The Federal Reserve must take steps to improve handling of complex settlements like the one reached with mortgage servicers over improper foreclosures, an internal watchdog said in a report.

PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh has appointed a former brand executive for the National Football League to its board.

Examiners will not require community banks to adhere to new risk governance standards, but they are likely to expect community bank boards to incorporate the guidelines' fundamental principles into their oversight.

Just when it seemed that some banks might be putting their legal woes behind them, another threat has emerged that could involve the entire industry — debt- collections litigation.

United Community Banks in Blairsville, Ga., has announced a series of executive changes following the retirement of its chief risk officer.

Citizens Community Bancorp in Eau Claire, Wis., will close three branches.

The agency has been hounding the "significantly undercapitalized" bank to provide written capital restoration and contingency plans that would include ways Doral could be sold or liquidated.

The fact that a customer has been with your bank for an extended period of time may not be as predictive of their future decisions as you think.