The Senate Banking Committee is expected to vote next week on the nomination of Richard Corday to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Codorus Valley Bancorp in York, Pa., repurchased a warrant to buy more than 260,000 it issued to the Treasury Department in 2009 as part of its participation in the Trouble Asset Relief Program.

Banco Santander SA Chairman Emilio Botin on Friday declared a moratorium on big acquisitions.

Summit Financial Group Inc. in Moorefield, W. Va., said Thursday that it would extend the subscription period for its current stock offering, marking the second time it has pushed back the deadline.

The Durbin Amendment on debit interchange has been cited as reason for banks to shutter branches. Still, some observers believe it is one of many factors, if not the scapegoat, for closures that were necessary regardless of regulatory change.

At the bailout law's three-year anniversary, the Small Business Lending Fund has offered some banks a way out. But with that escape hatch now closed, roughly 400 small banks remain stuck in the program.

The biggest outside investor in Cardinal Bankshares has ramped up his fight against the company, creating a website and calling on shareholders to force management to sell.

A man in the Midwest was accused of attacking an ATM so fiercely that the machine was dislodged from its base and knocked to the ground.

WSFS Financial Corp. in Wilmington, Del., said Thursday that it has created a loan program in which it will offer discounted rates to small businesses that use the funds to create jobs.

Home Federal Bancorp Inc. in Nampa, Idaho, is shuttering six branches, streamlining its management, refinancing its debt and shifting mortgage loan originations to a third party as part of a broad restructuring that it says will reduce overhead by $3.6 million over the next 12 months.

The Treasury Department announced the last group of banks that will receive capital under the Small Business Lending Fund, which distributed more than $4 billion to 332 banks, falling far short of industry expectations.

ECB Bancorp is set to receive nearly $80 million in capital by mid-November. The $942 million-asset company is laying out a three-pronged strategy of acquisitions, de novo branch expansion and organic growth to get to $3 billion to $5 billion in the next few years.

Jefferson Bancshares Inc. of Morristown, Tenn., restated its last quarter as a loss after its take on bad investments and loans worsened.

Cascade Bancorp in Bend, Ore., has agreed to sell about $108 million of loans, generating $58 million in proceeds in an effort to remain well capitalized.

The head of a congressional panel that oversees the Internal Revenue Service says a proposed rule that would require U.S. banks to report interest paid to foreign account holders would discourage foreign investment and place an unnecessary burden on banks.

F&M Bancorporation Inc. in Tulsa, Okla., has raised $78 million in capital that it plans to use for expansion in Oklahoma and Texas.

Among regional banks, funding costs at time deposit-dependent institutions have improved but still substantially exceed rates paid by competitors, and some could be set for expanding net interest margins as CDs gravitate toward market yields.

BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said Tuesday that it was planning a 1-for-5 reverse split of its class A and B common stock.

D.C. bureau chief Rob Blackwell on the key takeaways from American Banker's Regulatory Symposium.

Fulton Financial Corp. in Lancaster, Pa., has unveiled the management team for its newly created New Jersey bank.