Smaller institutions are following the lead of bigger banks, which is presenting buying opportunities for CEOs like Bristol County Savings Bank's Pat Murray.

Commerce Bancshares (CBSH) in Kansas City, Mo., posted stronger quarterly results because of higher card fees and loan volume.

First Niagara Financial Group in Buffalo, N.Y., is recycling some of its real estate for the benefit of neighbors.

Mercantile Bank (MBWM) in Grand Rapids, Mich., posted another profitable quarter despite renewed efforts to purge bad assets.

An expansion to the south boosted profits at Washington Federal in Seattle in the fourth quarter.

The Basel III liquidity plan is the latest case of a global rule hostile to local realities.

These often-reclusive businesses manage the finances of America's affluent and occasionally compete with banks for clients and employees. These offices have interesting back stories.

The unexpected departure of the CEO of the nation's biggest Korean-American bank moves comes just days after rival Hanmi Financial announced plans to sell itself.

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Virginia Commerce and Hanmi Financial are mulling sales after turnarounds, decisions that surprise some but could make sense for the select group of banks with just the right balance of size, appeal and reason to sell.

The $627 million-asset bank said Monday that it had named Kay Whitaker as its chief financial officer. She will succeed Laurinda Swank, who is shifting to the newly created post of chief accounting officer, a company spokeswoman said.

Synovus Financial Corp. (SNV) settled a shareholder lawsuit over more than $200 million in bad loans to Georgia luxury resort Sea Island Co. that the investors say were approved with a "golf course handshake" between executives of the two companies.

Rob McMillan, a wine industry expert at Silicon Valley Bank who moonlights in a rock band, dances to a different banking drummer.

With North Jersey Community the latest bank to change its name, we ask marketing experts to look at the pros and cons of rebranding.

Amy Friend, the former chief counsel of the Senate Banking Committee who previously worked at the OCC, will succeed Julie Williams as the agency's chief counsel.

EverBank Financial in Jacksonville, Fla., has added lenders to boost business with buyers and sellers of technology equipment.

Expertise alone is insufficient without experience, and its byproduct: a "gut" feeling that enables a lender to separate the good credit applicant from the bad, the legitimate from the "con".

The president and six former officers of a failed Savannah, Ga., bank were indicted on Jan. 11 on charges of fraud and conspiracy related to failed commercial loans.

Banks, subprime lenders and borrowers had varying reactions to the agency's long-awaited ruling on qualified mortgages.

The Obama administration has ruled out minting money as a way to sidestep the nation's borrowing limit. The Treasury Department will not produce a trillion-dollar platinum coin to pay the federal government's bills, the Washington Post reported Saturday.