Capital One (COF) is expanding its board of directors with the addition of two banking industry veterans, including a former top official of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Recovering home prices have helped shrink underwater home equity loans, but such uncollateralized assets are still large when measured against Tier 1 common equity at the Big Four banks.

Financial Institutions (FISI) has ended its months-long search for a new chief executive with the promotion of an insider.

The founder and chief executive of Bankers' Bank Northeast in Glastonbury, Conn., is retiring.

Consumers are still at risk from small-dollar loans with high fees or that roll-over debt, an advisory council warned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking to sell securities tied to new U.S. home loans without government backing in its first offering since the financial crisis that the debt helped trigger.

A regulatory plan that changes how banks must account for holdings on their books is stirring anxiety in the financial services industry that it may force banks to make a premature decision about what they intend to do with an asset.

Two large community banks merging in South Carolina could create the next Southeast regional player and acquirer of choice.

Less than a year after stepping down as chairman of Atlantic Coast Financial (ACFC) in Jacksonville, Fla., Jay Sidhu is seeking to oust three members of the company's board and replace them with a new slate of directors.

Many problems with payday products are concocted by activists and politicians with mercenary intent who are more interested in squelching innovation than letting people make choices for themselves.

More regional and community banks have selling noncumulative perpetual preferred stock to bolster Tier 1 capital and fund expansion.

After 10 years of helping to build up expectations at PNC, Bill Demchak will have to surpass them after he becomes CEO this spring.

First Financial Bankshares (FFIN) in Abilene, Texas, has agreed to buy Orange Savings Bank in Orange, Texas.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) is facing another call from institutional investors to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive.

Securant Bank in Menomonee Falls, Wis., has agreed to sell its trust business to an Illinois bank.

PremierWest Bancorp's campaign to persuade shareholders to approve a merger with AmericanWest Bank has not yet reached its goal. The deal is on hold for one more month as the companies wait for proxy votes to come in.

Even as the financial crisis gives way to a recovery, everyone from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to comedian Stephen Colbert are demanding Washington get tough on banks and bankers. The question is what sort of action-if any-will follow.

Solera National Bancorp in Lakewood, Colo., is revisiting a deal that regulators blocked three years ago, with a few modifications.

A small Texas bank has agreed to pay $700,000 to settle allegations that it discriminated against Hispanic borrowers by charging them higher prices on unsecured consumer loans.

Huntington Bancshares is adding to its presence in West Virginia.