Shareholders of Atlantic Coast Financial (ACFC) will no longer have to wait a year for 40% of their payout.

Nearly a quarter of owners of companies with less than $10 million in annual revenue want their bank to make adjustments to meet their individual needs, according to a survey.

Eric John Abrahamson, author of "Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream," talks about what lenders today can learn from Howard F. Ahmanson's story.

FirstMerit in Akron, Ohio, reported higher first-quarter earnings thanks to better fee income and lending as well as lower expenses.

Signature Bank posted higher quarterly profit after adding more loans and deposits.

UMB Financial in Kansas City, Mo., posted solid quarterly results on loan growth and lower credit costs.

Discover Financial Services (DFS) beat its earnings expectations as its loans and grew and credit card delinquencies hit an all-time low.

Synovus Financial (SNV) in Columbus, Ga., reported lower first-quarter earnings because of pressure on its net interest margin.

Ahmanson had seen men get rich by focusing on the government's priorities. Now it wanted homes and mortgages. He would build a business to meet this demand.

Pacific Mercantile Bancorp in Costa Mesa, Calif., has a new president and chief executive.

Wilshire Bancorp (WIBC) in Los Angeles reported lower quarterly earnings, but when a tax benefit was excluded, its results were relatively unchanged from a year earlier.

Regions Financial Corp., Alabama's biggest bank, said first-quarter profit rose 68 percent, beating analyst estimates as the lender cuts costs and reduced provisions for loan losses.

Profit fell at BancorpSouth (BXS) in Tupelo, Miss., on declining net interest revenue and a hefty charge for legal expenses.

Georgetown Bank in Massachusetts has named Philip Bryan its chief operations officer. Bryan had been Georgetown's chief lending officer since joining the company in 2010.

Hundreds of protestors showed up at the home of Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, calling for an end to his tenure with an already penned resignation letter awaiting his signature.

Rep Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the panel will not accept testimony from CFPB Director Richard Cordray on the agency's semi-annual report, arguing that he was not legally appointed to the position.

Zions Bancorp. (ZION) more than tripled quarterly profits as it recorded a credit for its loan-loss provision and lowered its interest expenses.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Monday that it was restructuring the agency to add an office that will directly deal with financial institutions and their trade groups.

Generations Bank in Seneca Falls, N.Y., plans to begin moving its critical banking applications to Compushare's C3 Cloud Computing platform.

Navy Federal Credit Union, the largest such institution in the U.S., is unlikely to be designated systemically important, according to a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.