Members of the House Financial Services Committee are pressing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for details about its investigation into discriminatory auto lending.

The bank wants to double in size by pursuing acquisitions and hiring bankers away from competitors.

Wells Fargo (WFC) Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf said managing low interest rates may be the most pressing challenge for bankers and that his company had prematurely kept funds idle to gird for increases.

The T. Rowe Price Group has agreed to sell its banking unit to the investor Jacob Safra.

SLM Corp. believes its bank unit would be more valuable as its own company, but it could also be attractive to other banks eager to add earning assets.

The Federal Reserve Board has taken action against two banks and terminated orders with four others, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp has freed Synovus Financial from an order.

The Federal Reserve Board has terminated an enforcement action with CIT Group.

Hugh McColl, who made his name in banking by building one of the nation's largest financial institutions in Bank of America, is lending his heft to an academic program that should benefit community bank.

Banks that develop strong, personalized relationships with small business owners will generate mutual sustained value.

ViewPoint Bank in Plano, Texas, has hired Chris Parada to lead its newly formed energy-finance division, which will provide senior debt financing to oil and gas companies throughout the country

The Treasury Department and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly agreed to allow the Making Home Affordable Program to continue to be available to American families for an additional two years through Dec. 31, 2015.

Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce posted higher second-quarter profits, lifted by gains in domestic consumer lending and a decline in provisions for bad loans.

Carlyle Group plans to sell roughly $40 million of common stock in Boston Private Financial Holdings.

Southwest Bancorp in Stillwater, Okla., and Bank of Kentucky in Crestview Hills have completed exits from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Foreclosure-related U.S. home sales fell 22 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier as rising prices reduced the incentive to sell for owners who owe more than their properties are worth, RealtyTrac said.

Community banks and credit unions now have two years to continue originating balloon loans to all customers, a major change from a prior proposal that would have banned such loans except in rural or underserved markets.

Banco Sabadell in Spain has agreed to buy Lloyds Banking Group’s international private banking business in Miami.

While banks hit a landmark with their $40.3 billion in earnings, it appeared partly due to idiosyncratic transactions at big banks and was not a sign of a resurgent industry.

Small-business owners are generally satisfied with their access to funding and about one in five plans to apply for a loan in 2013, according to a new survey from Bank of America (BAC).

Lack of financial education blamed for low savings rates among young workers.