Robin McGraw, chief executive of Renasant in Tupelo, Miss., celebrated his deal for First M&F and the University of Mississippi football team's recruiting coup.

Renasant's willingness to pay a premium for First M&F, a small bank in the Deep South, indicates just how hungry banks are to put capital to use.

In its latest billboard ad, the Colorado bank is comparing itself to an institution that makes nearly anyone look good.

State legislators want to give Bank of North Dakota authority to originate and service mortgages for rural community banks.

The Treasury Department has decided to cancel the auction of Coastal Banking Company's Troubled Asset Relief Program shares after the bank received approval to pay dividends.

Industry veteran Al Celini expects plenty of challenges, but a shorter commute and fewer crises, as the new chief risk officer at Sun National Bank.

Renasant in Tupelo will buy First M&F in Kosciusko in a merger of Mississippi banks.

Customers Bancorp in Wyomissing, Pa., will look to give its shareholders better liquidity this year, but it is not reconsidering an initial public offering.

Customers Bank is buying a commercial loan portfolio based in New England from Flagstar. The deal would reunite Jay Sidhu with some valuable former employees.

The recently renamed ConnectOne Bancorp in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., has filed to raise up to $46 million through an initial public offering.

Virtually all discussions of banking crises these days assume that depositors should always be protected, often at taxpayer expense. Let's consider whether at least some depositors should be bailed in.

A new report finds that consumers have a deeply ingrained expectation that checking accounts should be free. It argues that banks need to become savvier and more scientific in order to overcome that barrier.

BofI Holding (BOFI) in San Diego earned a record quarterly profit on surging interest income and a higher interest margin.

First Niagara (FNFG) in Buffalo has created a banking region that includes branches it bought last year from HSBC.

Promontory responds to Joe Slavens.

Flagstar has asked the Treasury to delay the sale of its Tarp shares, will have to pay more than $90 million in connection with a bond insurer's lawsuit, and announced the sale of more commercial loans.

Taking fire from the enemy is hazardous, but for soldiers who save money it offers at least one financial perk.

Capital Bank Financial (CBF) in Miami said its board had authorized the repurchase of up to $50 million of its common stock, which could take place through open-market or through private transactions.

Regulators seem obsessed with preventing false negatives: loans that pass underwriting and then default. They should consider the costs of false positives, i.e., restricting loans that probably would perform fine.

A unit of United Community Financial (UCFC) in Youngstown, Ohio, has been freed from an enforcement action with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Ohio Division of Financial Institutions.