The $2 billion-asset company in Rockville, Conn., said Monday it plans to repurchase as many as 10% of its roughly 2.7 million shares outstanding.

A federal judge has revived a lawsuit that charges JPMorgan Chase (JPM) with misrepresenting the quality of loans that backed securities sold to Belgian bank Dexia.

Bloomberg LP has hired a consulting firm with significant ties to financial regulators to help review its privacy policies.

Shareholders of OptimumBank Holdings (OPHC) have approved a reverse stock split aimed at preserving the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., company's Nasdaq listing.

Tim Pawlenty, the CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, says the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been forging a "constructive" relationship with the banking industry, especially as it dealt with qualified mortgage and remittance rules.

Enterprise Financial Services has completed the purchase of a mortgage business from F&M Bank and Trust.

Crypto Street, a startup that’s building a platform for trading digital currencies like Bitcoin, is making a point of forging relationships with multiple banks after similar businesses suddenly lost their bank accounts and folded or scaled back.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is revising his allegations of foreclosure settlement violations by Wells Fargo (WFC) and Bank of America (BAC), resetting the clock on his plans to sue the banks over 339 alleged servicing violations.

Miguel Blesa, a former executive of Caja Madrid, is in Spanish prison after being accused of arranging to buy Florida's City National Bank at an inflated price.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp (PMBC) has postponed its annual meeting after it discovered that it awarded too many stock option grants to its former chief executive.

Fulton Financial (FULT) in Lancaster, Pa., announced that its longtime chief financial officer will retire at the end of this year.

The CFPB's revised final rule on remittances made it easier on bankers, but it will still have a significant — though unclear — impact on international money transfers.

As investor Jay Sidhu and Atlantic Coast Financial intensify their fight over the Florida company's deal to sell to Bond Street Holdings, the market has priced a higher deal value into the stock. Atlantic Coast warns that no such bump-up is coming.

Commerce Bancshares is the latest bank to announce plans to buy a small bank in Oklahoma, which boasts one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates

Brennan Ryan, a partner at Nelson Mullins, ran the equivalent of several marathons with his wife and a friend in the Marathon des Sables to raise money for Hemophilia of Georgia.

The regulator of federal credit unions is promising to take steps to curtail high-cost, short-term loans, in the wake of tough action by banking regulators.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency took regulatory action against 11 financial institutions and terminated orders against five others in April, the agency said Friday.

Huntington Bancshares is tightening its ties to Toledo, Ohio.

Hampton Roads Bancshares (HMPR) in Virginia Beach, Va., has named Charles Johnston chairman.

AmeriServ Financial in Johnstown, Pa., has begun another stock buyback.