Fed Gov. Daniel Tarullo calls for capping the size of banks, lawsuit proliferate, earnings roll in.

Two East Coast banks have shed their mutual holding company ownership.

Liability insurance companies generally argue allowing banks to receive insurance coverage for overdraft litigation settlements violates public policy and rewards supposed wrongdoing, but there typically is no explicit exclusion in a policy that justifies this and other go-to positions.

Team Capital has no plans to go public, but it is helping investors cash out by partnering with a New York broker-dealer that makes markets in illiquid stocks.

The $4.4 billion-asset bank holding company based in Dubuque, Iowa said Thursday it would buy Heritage Bank in Phoenix for $16 million in cash.

Many community banks could find themselves in the same dilemma as LNB in Ohio, which is weighing the pleas of activist shareholder Umberto Fedeli to repurchase its Tarp shares from private investors. It has to choose between paying higher dividends or a costly capital raise.

The Consumer Bankers Association has elected Iberiabank executive Bob Kottler as its new chairman for 2013, the group said in a press release Thursday.

Growth in business lending by commercial banks remained brisk in the third quarter according to preliminary data, but continued to slide from a recent peak.

The Sunshine State is on its third banking commissioner — Drew Breakspear — in slightly more than a year.

Viable restructuring alternatives to bank holding company debt do exist and will open the door to conventional M&A options or attract fresh equity.

Unable to find an acquisition or other expansion opportunity that it likes, Trinity Bank in Fort Worth, Texas, will pay a special onetime dividend to shareholders.

Flushing Savings Bank has filed an application with regulators to combine with its subsidiary, Flushing Commercial Bank, under a New York commercial bank charter.

MLV & Co. Financial has struck a deal to buy a stake in an investment advisor in Connecticut and promises more acquisitions to come.

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The parent of $13 billion-asset PrivateBank said Wednesday it has begun a public offering of roughly $75 million of its common stock and announced plans to hold a separate public offering of $125 million in subordinated debt.

BankUnited (BKU) is gearing up for branch openings in New York despite being barred by a settlement with Capital One Financial from opening the branches until next year.

Signature, a New York bank led by frugal CEO Joseph DePaolo, is laser-focused on commercial clients and niche lines in an age when others are trying to be all things to all people.

NBT Bancorp's agreement to buy Alliance Financial in New York is an M&A rarity — a sizable deal between healthy seller that could signal more such transactions to come.

Banks have recovered maybe $1 billion in tax assets written down because of doubts about future profitability. As third quarter reports approach, that leaves more than $5 billion to go.