Rabobank, the Dutch banking giant that applied last month to buy one of the Farm Credit System's largest lenders, is hitting back at critics of the deal.

CHICAGO — Labe Bank was having a hard time distinguishing itself when the Windy City’s market started heating up a few years ago.

John Holaday, a former chief executive of a pharmaceutical development company, knows dozens of executives in the biotechnology industry and knows how they struggle to make themselves understood to bankers.

America's Community Bankers and Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. have announced that intraday price quotes are now available for the trade group's Nasdaq index.

With seven weeks left in its fiscal year, the Small Business Administration has surpassed last year's 7(a) loan record.

Gerald Banmiller considers 1st Colonial National Bank in Collingswood, N.J., a "pristine little environment."

The Federal Reserve Board's plan to limit the amount of nonvoting stock that banks may count as Tier 1 capital would weaken the specialized ownership of minority-owned and family-owned banks, critics of the plan say.

Bank of the Ozarks Inc. is taking its brand of disciplined expansion to faster-growing markets: Dallas first, then Charlotte.

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What Gold Banc Corp. would give for one reassuring phone call.

County Bank, a California community bank whose parent has $1.3 billion of assets, says it has started a wealth management division and opened an office in Fresno to offer one-on-one service to millionaires.

Virtually every top bank executive will tell you that just about the toughest part of the job is firing people.

Gold Banc Corp.'s agreement to pay $16 million to settle a suit claiming it overcharged agricultural borrowers will probably force a revision in its $672 million deal to sell itself to an investor group.

Mich. bank returns to start-up strategy in NW

Amcore Financial Inc. of Rockford, Ill., announced Monday that it plans to spend $55 million to further its branch expansion.

About 30 miles north of Charlotte, the home of some of the nation’s largest banks, is the former textile town of Mooresville, N.C., which most banks largely ignored — until recently.

A Native American banking group wants more tribes to start their own banks, and it is bringing that message to the people.

International Bancshares Corp. of Laredo, Tex., reported second-quarter earnings of $26.2 million, 6.9% less than a year earlier.

Shareholders of Sobieski Bancorp of South Bend, Ind., have approved its sale to $ 428-million MFB Corp. of Mishawka, Ind.