Nearly three weeks after the Dutch giant Rabobank Group announced a blockbuster deal to acquire Farm Credit Services of America in Omaha, another Farm Credit System lender has made a counteroffer.

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Banks in Texas and at least three nearby states are reporting a rash of thefts in which customers unwittingly make deposits into fake boxes placed over night deposit boxes.

I remember telling the CEO of U.S. Trust Co. in New York that I was jealous of his job.

Carver Federal Savings Bank says its working-class customer base has never pressed it for more savings options, but it decided to expand its offerings anyway.

A money-losing community bank in Michigan has agreed to recapitalize itself by selling $30 million of stock to an investor group.

CIB Marine Bancshares Inc. of Pewaukee, Wis., said Friday that it is selling CIB Bank Chicago to the $7.3 billion-asset First Banks Inc. of St. Louis for $62 million in cash.

In a move that would increase its market share in Pennsylvania's Lawrence and Beaver counties, ESB Financial Corp. of Ellwood City has agreed to buy PHSB Financial Corp. for $82.6 million in cash and stock.

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.