The banking industry's pace of expansion, which had shown signs of accelerating in late 2012, appears to have lost momentum.

Darrell Green, an initial investor in the bank, enjoyed a Hall of Fame career with the National Football League's Washington Redskins.

Flushing Financial in Lake Success, N.Y. is now a bank. The $4.5 billion-asset company said Thursday that it had also merged Flushing Savings Bank and Flushing Commercial Bank to create a commercial bank chartered in New York.

Lenders are lowering rates and stretching out loan terms to win business, and that combination could spell trouble when interest rates rise.

Bank of American Fork in Utah held a retirement party Wednesday for an executive who has spent 45 years with the bank.

A big gain in servicing fees propelled Ocwen Financial (OCN) in the fourth quarter. Earnings at the Atlanta mortgage servicer rose to $65.1 million, compared with $9.7 million a year earlier.

The deal-hungry Independent Bank Group in Mckinney, Texas, is planning to raise up to $92 million through an initial public offering.

The head of Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) said Thursday that he is not interested in buying Royal Bank of Scotland's U.S. operations.

Some think the Minnesota bank would be hard to sell, but if William Cooper got a deal done, he could make nearly $16 million.

Emigrant Bank in New York has received regulatory approval to sell branches to Apple Bank for Savings.

A growing number of community banks are experimenting with traveling employees and student part-timers to cut branch expenses.

Dan Rollins suggested that BancorpSouth undertake a sequester-style process to reduce expenses.

Are regulatory rules meant to make big banks safer instead doing more to shield them from competition from smaller players?

There's an oversupply of old-fashioned branches, and banks don't know what to do with them, says industry consultant and executive recruiter Rod Taylor.

OceanFirst Financial in Toms River, N.J., has hired the former chief executive of Patriot National Bancorp as its president.

Peoples Financial in Biloxi, Miss., is resuming stock buybacks.

If a customer connects to an open Wi-Fi network, fails to follow adequate Bluetooth communications protocol or uses shoddy passwords on smartphones, a bank's internal networks may be exposed to fraud.

The Georgia community bank converted its 300+ staff to Google Apps for Business, signaling a continuing, albeit slow, trend of banks going to the cloud for email service.

Organic loan growth and expense control are the top priorities at F.N.B. and People's United, but their CEOs also eager to accelerate expansion in markets where they are relative newcomers.