WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve Board will meet Tuesday to vote on the Basel III capital and liquidity rules to be applied to U.S. banks, the central bank said Thursday.

Peter Aceto, the CEO of ING Direct Canada, joined the "Daily Show" in a spoof of bank regulation, but his appearance wasn't all laughs.

A recent study found that customers want products like identity theft alerts and mobile bill pay from their banks. But many community banks are unable or unwilling to offer those products.

Louis B. "Buzz" Eckelkamp III, who has been promoted to president of Bank of Washington in Missouri, got a pat on the back from his boss — his dad. However, the celebration was short.

Show me an industry with artificially high barriers to entry, and you will almost certainly find dissatisfied customers paying higher prices to large, protected providers.

U.S. Bancorp and a nonbank partner have agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle charges that they misled members of the U.S. military about the fees charged on auto loans.

Jack Choi, the chief credit officer at Wilshire Bancorp (WIBC) in Los Angeles, will step down on July 1 to become president and chief executive of an unnamed bank.

Institutions need to realize that, given the relative health of their asset portfolios and the current regulatory environment, valuations and deal prices will be below historical averages.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., plans to redeem $125 million in trust-preferred securities.

United Community Bank in Blairsville, Ga., expects a spike in second-quarter earnings after being cleared to reverse most of its deferred tax asset valuation allowance.

John W. Allison of Home BancShares finally got Liberty Bancshares to blink after 10 years of trying to buy it. Allison's persistence and the high multiples on Home's stock helped seal the deal.

Mobile text alerts are increasingly a part of a solid mobile banking customer experience. Industry analysts share best practices, common mistakes and occasional quirks occurring in delivering mobile alerts.

BNC Financial Group in New Canaan, Conn., is planning to change its name to Bankwell Financial.

Jacksonville Bancorp is in the market for a new CEO at a time when it is also trying to sell more stock and conduct a reverse stock split.

Various loan types have been yielding fatter margins over banks’ cost of funds through much of the Fed’s campaign to stimulate the economy. Blame banks' tight overall margins on cash and securities.

Alamogordo Financial Corp. (ALMG) in New Mexico has agreed to buy Bank 1440 (BFFO) in Phoenix.

Signature Bank (SBNY) in New York City has hired a private-client team from Citigroup (NYSE: C) and added two more bankers to head its existing groups.

StoneCastle Financial is planning an initial public offering to raise up to $150 million for bank investments.

Bay Banks of Virginia in Kilmarnock plans to close a branch and begin offering mobile banking.

In an effort to simplify its mortgage process and improve compliance, BOK Financial (BOKF) in Tulsa, Okla., has chosen DocuTech's mortgage loan document software.