American National Bankshares in Danville, Va., has agreed to buy MainStreet BankShares in Martinsville, Va.

Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach, Fla., has agreed to buy Community Bank of Broward in Dania Beach, Fla.

Goldman Sachs is in the final stages of negotiating $1.1 billion settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to a news report Friday.

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Financial Institutions in Warsaw, N.Y., is overhauling its risk-management structure, while also looking for a new executive to handle such duties.

A case filed by subprime card issuer First Premier Bank raises questions about how much influence card companies have over the websites that consumers use to price-shop.

Goldman Sachs is in the final stages of negotiating $1.1 billion settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to a news report Friday.

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized revisions to its international money transfer rule that will provide certain remittances with a longer exemption.

Members of the San Antonio financial services company can now use its mobile app to conduct verbal or text searches, speak with customer service representatives and conduct increasingly sophisticated transactions. The ultimate goal is an app that learns from customer behavior and acts more human.

Peapack-Gladstone Financial in Bedminster, N.J., could look to raise up to $100 million in coming months.

Who says you can't have it all? Banks like Eagle Bancorp and Puget Sound Bank are adding loans at a fast clip, but that hasn't stopped them from looking for deals. Still, such banks must make sure their deals do not wreck the growth engine they already have.

Lower volume and improved processes are being credited for making mortgage lenders more efficient at getting loans through the origination process

The Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to shut down a debt relief and credit repair scam that falsely claimed the federal government funded the program and that it was endorsed by President Obama.

Inc. magazine has ranked Fairport, N.Y.-based collection agency ConServe on its 33rd annual Inc. 500|5000 list, a ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.

Citizens Financial Group in Providence, R.I., has hired Russell Herakovich to lead the national expansion of its health care banking group.

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Blue Harbour Group, an activist investor fund, has amassed a 5.7% stake in Investors Bancorp in New Jersey.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has chosen a dozen firms involved in the mortgage industry for a pilot program looking at whether electronic fillings can improve the mortgage closing process.