A dearth of relationships with the underbanked has perpetuated the shortage of insight into how low-income consumers manage their finances. Enter the U.S. Financial Diaries.

Restricted on capital. Burdened by heavy deposit insurance assessments. Threatened with losing their federal tax exemption. Little wonder credit unions are weighing conversion.

El Paso offers a microcosm of the banking industry across the country, illustrating how institutions operating side by side can diverge dramatically based on the decisions made every day about how to run them.

On her way out as Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chief, Sheila Bair told lawmakers that certain capital rules meant for large banks may affect small ones as well, and defended prompt corrective action in the face of an oversight report criticizing it.

First Connecticut Bancorp Inc.'s stock rose 10% Thursday in its first day trading on the Nasdaq after converting to a stock company from mutual ownership.

Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Co. in New York has promoted Thomas J. Murphy to president of the bank and senior vice president of its parent company, Arrow Financial Corp., effective July 1

WASHINGTON — TCF Financial Corp. on Thursday abandoned pursuit of a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve Board on its proposed debit interchange rule.

Deborah Wright has likely never been as happy to be a New Yorker as she is this week. Carver Bancorp, a struggling thrift company where Wright is the CEO, managed to bring in $55M in capital in a deal led by many of the city's heavyweights.

Merger-and-acquisition activity may be slow in most regions of the country, but it is picking up steam in California.

Dalhart Federal Savings & Loan Association will convert to a state-charted bank in Texas in response to the Office of Thrift Supervision's merger into the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Several of the nation's largest financial services firms have teamed to recapitalize the ailing Carver Bancorp, which has been under an enforcement order since March to boost its capital ratios.

As regulators continue to develop rules on a Dodd-Frank requirement to force most derivatives to be centrally traded, lawmakers heard from a slew of firms on Wednesday that are jockeying for position in the marketplace.

Renasant said the deal will increase its wealth management and trust assets under management and advisement to about $1.5 billion.

West Bancorp. In West Des Moines, Iowa, said late Wednesday that it exited the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The $1.3 billion-asset company said it was able to redeem $36 million in preferred stock without having to borrow any money or issue stock.

Macatawa Bank Corp. in Holland, Mich., has closed on a $10.25 million of common equity in public offering and now should have enough capital to satisfy its regulatory order.

BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. continues to assert that it will be a survivor even after its latest effort to raise capital fell short of expectations.

Private-equity groups and other have investors have committed roughly $515 million to recapitalize the ailing First BanCorp in San Juan, P.R., setting the stage for the $15 billion-asset company to convert its preferred stock owned by the Treasury Department into common stock.

CenterState Banks Inc. in Davenport, Fla., has sold off a chunk of nonperforming loans in a deal that it says would free up capital that it could use for future expansion.